Climbers
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'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing
'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane
'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' Benjamin Myers
Retreating from…
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After reading M. John Harrison's brilliant genre-bending, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, I was eager for more. I came across Climbers during a drawn-out respiratory illness, when I became obsessed with watching climbing films and documentaries. You don't have to be a climber yourself to love this book: my fear of heights prevents me from scaling even a low rock face.
Although an ostensibly realist book, Harrison nonetheless weaves a strangeness into his writing at the sentence level. His descriptions of tarnished landscapes are second to none, and his eccentric characters have sunken permanently into my psyche,…
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In 1662, a man is wrongly executed for signing the death warrant of Charles I. Awaiting execution, he asks to speak with a priest, to whom he declares a curse on the village that betrayed him. The priest responds with a counter-curse, leaving just one option to nullify it.
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