From the author of “Fugue for a Darkening Island” and “The Glamour”, comes a new elaborate science fantasy novel. Winner of the British Science Fiction Award, Christopher Priest was featured in the Book Marketing Council’s “Best of Young British” promotion.
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…