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John Fuller.
Flying to Nowhere: A Tale.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983 (previously issued in hardback by Salamander Press, 1983).
ISBN 0140072411.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Bungay.
Size: 128×197×8mm.
Page count: 89pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its covers, and the original price scratched out on the back cover, a little wear on the edges and corners; pages a bit yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.50
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Weight without packaging: 118g.

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Fantasy fiction: set on a Welsh island with monastery, farm and miraculous well. Novices nurse hopeless spiritual aspirations, farm girls in their dormitory after harvest exchange tales of sexuality and flight. The Abbot is at his dissecting table, engaged in a search for the seat of the soul; the Bishop’s emissary, investigating missing pilgrims, is digging up the island. On the morning after the ceremonial ordeal of a novice, women approach the bedchamber carrying sharp knives and bowls of hot water. At the climax of the story the Abbot preaches a sermon against flying. The book’s strange ambience allows the reader to half-believe the bizarre and affirmative event at the conclusion.

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