Sylvow by Douglas Thompson
In the city of Sylvow, brother and sister Claudia and Leo Vestra made a childhood promise to each other: he would look after the plants and she would look after the animals. Unlike most promises, both of these were kept - each in their own way. Claudia is now a vet - looking after pampered pets or putting down strays and leading a mundane life in the city. Leo, on the other hand, disenchanted with modern urban life, has abruptly abandoned his wife and disappeared into the surrounding forest, his only contact with the outside world being a sequence of dramatic and prophetic letters - increasingly convinced that a semi-sentient natural world is preparing to rebel against its human irritants. Nature is a strange thing - although we have done an amazing job of cataloguing and observing it, we still know very little about it. Nature always surprises - and always changes, especially under an external influence such as humanity's devastating effect on the environment. This book follows its cast of characters through a spectacular clash between everyday life and life on the evolutionary scale - as society dissolves and is stripped away under the onslaught of surreal environmental disaster. Douglas Thompson has dug deep into the inevitable guilt that we all feel, as a culture/species, for the disastrous state of civilization and its effect on both ourselves and the world around us - in the process touching on elements as diverse as literary surrealism, philosophical tract, horror, disaster novel and visionary science fiction.
Douglas Thompson is the acclaimed author of more than 20 books, including Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man. A biographer, broadcaster, and international journalist, he is a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines worldwide. Douglas divides his time between England and California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780956214768 |
| ISBN 10 | 0956214762 |
| Title | Sylvow |
| Author | Douglas Thompson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eibonvale Press |
| Year published | 2010-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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