The Fisher King,9780226677002

The Fisher King

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ISBN13: 9780226677002
ISBN10: 0226677001
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-11-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

Aboard theAlecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher Kingthe maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval failed to ask the right questions. A myth with many permutationsand a blurred borderland between themthe Fisher King legend dovetails the various explanations Powell offers from his competing narrators as to why a talented young dancer would forsake her art to care for a feeble older man.Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship,The Fisher Kingis much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.

Author Biography

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) has received several literary prizes in Britain and the United States, among them the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Annual Literary Award, and the T. S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing. His twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time is available from the University of Chicago Press.

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