Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE, which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. THE AFFIRMATION is his compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that isn’t – partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the mark of one of Britain’s finest novelists at the very height of his powers. Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in …
Swirling Postmodern Madness Priest offers a dazzling account of nebulous reality, crumbling identity and schizophrenia. Unfortuantely, Priest like many others before him, has been incorrectly labeled a science fiction author. Nothing, especially in this case, could be further from the truth. Priest is concerned with the nature of our reality, the ways in which we as inhabitants perceive and interpret it, and the uses of fantasy. Without a doubt, “The Affirmation” requires a rereading and can only be…
A wonderful book… …but I think that the disturbing ending would have been somewhat spoiled if I’d read the review by “thatwhichfalls” before I read it. An incisive review, thatwhichfalls, but why the spoiler?
Mind-blowing The Affirmation is the eighth novel by British SF author Christopher Priest, originally published in 1981. As with his later novels The Prestige and moreso The Separation, The Affirmation is a book about identity, truth, perception and perspective which rewards multiple readings and is open to many interpretations of what is happening.A 29-year-old man named Peter Sinclair is tormented by the death of his father, an unhappy relationship with a woman named Gracia and the loss of his…