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The Affirmation

Synopsis:

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 ...THE AFFIRMATION is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality.

Reviews:

"With formidable imagination and ingenuity, Christopher Priest turns the novel into an Escher tessellation in which figure and ground are interchangeable. Bringing home to the power of narrative to steal reality, affirming nothing, it abandons us mid sentence, posed between page and world, discomfited and hyper-aware." -- Sam Thompson TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Author Biography:

Christopher Priest's novels have built him an inimitable dual reputation as a contemporary novelist and a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel THE PRESTIGE is unique in winning both a major literary prize (the James Tait Black Award) and a major genre prize (The World Fantasy Award); THE SEPARATION won both the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science Fiction Awards. He was selected for the original Best of Young British Novelists in1983.

Additional Information:

Promotional: THE SEAPARATION won both both the Arthur C Clarke and the British SF Award; THE PRESTIGE won both the James Tait Black and the World Fantasy Award Christopher Priest is one of Britain's most exciting novelists 'Rich and provocative' Times Literary Supplement 'There is a compulsive, dream-like quality about The Affirmation that defies definition' Daily Telegraph ' Priest opposes madness and sanity, life and art, the elaborate narrative and the empty page - and then makes them interchangeable ...an original thriller, a study of schizophrenia set against questions of persona and plot' New Statesman 'So convincing is Mr Priest's other world that it challenges reality ...This is altogether an uncomfortable book that chips away at certainties while enticing with story' Sunday Telegraph Related subjects: Fantasy