Time's fool
a tale in verse
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Word Count
99,000 words, Guess
Page Count
396 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6793793M
- ISBN-100618073884
- OCLC Control Number44712832
- OCLC Control Numbertimesfooltaleinv0000maxw
- Library of Congress Control Number00061327
and 2 more
- LibraryThing738746
- Goodreads2599144
Classifications
- DDC821/.914
- LCCPR6063.A869 T5 2000
Description
"Edmund Lea perpetually rides a ghost train - except every seven years on Christmas Eve, when he is allowed to revisit his home town.". "Like Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Edmund is condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age and watching the world grow older. He tries in vain to break the spell by way of true love, repentance, hedonism; he tries to change the world and he tries to die. Characters move in and out of Maxwell's story like Dante's figures in Hell, but Edmund's own Virgil is a careless and unhelpful poet, a portrait of the author as a student."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genres
- Poetry.
Other Editions
- Time's fool: a tale in verse
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