Time's Fool by Glyn Maxwell

Time's Fool by Glyn Maxwell

Time's Fool tells the tale of Edmund Lea, a young man condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Edmund perpetually rides a phantom train -- except on Christmas Eve every seven years, when he is allowed to revisit his English hometown. He tries to break the spell by way of love, repentance, and death -- all in vain. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age but watching the world grow older. Infused with a dark humor and an almost unbearable nostalgia, Time's Fool is a brilliant achievement, classic yet hip, stylized yet inventive (Scotsman).

Glyn Maxwell was born in the English town of Welwyn Garden City in 1962. Out of the Rain (1992), for which he got a Somerset Maugham Award; Rest for the Wicked (1995), which was short-listed for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize; and The Breakage (1998), which was short-listed for both the T.S. Eliot Award and the Booker Prize. Prizes for T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry (Best Poetry Volume of the Year). Maxwell is a London resident.