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Pillars of Gold
Author(s): Alice Thomas Ellis (Author)
- Publisher: Akadine Pr
- Publication Date: January 1, 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 186 pages
- ISBN-10: 1888173548
- ISBN-13: 9781888173543
Book Description
“The fields from Islington to Marybone, /To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, /Were builded over with pillars of gold; /And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood.” Look round the area of London where William Blake once envisioned “pillars of gold,” and today you’ ll find a landscape anything but golden; Kentish Town is just the sort of urban battlefield where, when one’s neighbor seems unaccountably to be missing from her home, it is all too easy to start fearing the worst. In this 1992 novel, Alice Thomas Ellis craftily traces the ripples of unease a neighbor’s absence occasions. Ellis’s briskly lyrical prose strikes sparks from urban grimnesses, and her gift for witty dialogue turns her muddled urbanites’ chatter into a wry exposé of contemporary anxieties. With a new Afterword by Thomas Meagher.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A pleasure to read… uncommon sense, blunt honesty and wicked flirtatiousness.” -- Evening Standard
“The subtlety of James, the comedy of Spark, the penetrating—and the deep, unflinching—eye of Jane Austen.” --
Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Publisher
Already available by Alice Thomas Ellis in Common Reader Editions:
The Sin Eater
The Inn at the Edge of the World
The Summer House Trilogy
Fairy Tale
The Birds of the Air
