bones of the moon
black cocktail
a child across the sky
outside the dog museum
the panic hand
kissing the beehive
the land of laughs
the marriage of sticks
from the teeth of angels
sleeping in flame
voice of our shadow
Jonathan Carroll's genius for wringing
extraordinary magic from ordinary life has received high
praise from writers and critics alike.... And now in
Sleeping in Flame, his most brilliant and compelling novel
yet, Carroll playfully turns life inside out and makes it
abundantly clear that with dreams, myths, and imagination,
anything, after all, is possible.
Walker Easterling is a retired actor and screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffees, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, an artistic and hauntingly beautiful model, his life begins to come alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker's love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre--he discovers he can see things happening just before they happen, and at the same time feels an incredibly strong tug from his past--so a friend steers him to Venasque, an odd little man reputed to be a powerful shaman. Venasque helps Walker discover and unravel his many interconnected past lives, and it is soon clear that an unresolved conflict from these past lives has resurfaced, and now threatens to undo Walker and Maris's love.
At once lyrical,
frightening, funny, and sexy, Sleeping in Flame confirms
that Jonathan Carroll is one of the very few novelists
who--by constantly surprising us--give us an entirely new
perspective on our world. It is no wonder that he is
generally considered to be the most original and provocative
novelist of his generation.
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From Publisher's Weekly:
In this ``farfetched'' story of reincarnation among the beautiful people, an actor stumbles upon traces of his previous lives. ``In what begins as a highly literate parapsychological puzzler, Carroll shifts gears into fantasy and fairy tale, with results that may not be wholly satisfactory to fans of any one genre,'' commented PW. (July) &emdash;Publisher's Weekly
"Brilliant
is hardly enough. Stunningly brilliant might just come
close. I became a fan of Jonathan Carroll after reading
The
Land of Laughs. Now Sleeping in Flame has made me a big,
big fan."--James Herbert
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