'He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures, echoing stone?... It was time to take stock of others as hollow bodies and shelters into which one fell...' In Companions of the Day and Night (first published in 1975) Wilson Harris revives figures from his earlier Black Marsden - chiefly Clive Goodrich, the 'editor' of this text ...
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'He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures, echoing stone?... It was time to take stock of others as hollow bodies and shelters into which one fell...' In Companions of the Day and Night (first published in 1975) Wilson Harris revives figures from his earlier Black Marsden - chiefly Clive Goodrich, the 'editor' of this text, who constructs a narrative from the papers of a figure known as Idiot Nameless: a wanderer between present and past, taking an Easter sojourn in Mexico that lasts both for days and for centuries. The results have the strangely hypnotic power characteristic of Wilson Harris's fiction.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. 83 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Binding and text block are in fine condition: clean, square and tight throughout. Unclipped, illustrated dust jacket is fine but for light shelf wear. "Wilson Harris's new novel further develops the tabula rasa theme that ran through Black Marsden. During a sojourn in Mexico lasting both days and centuries, a faceless and any-faced narrator records in diary form various encounters and episodes, which shade into elements from the country's past, creating a vivid dream-sequence with the strangely hypnotic power characteristic of Wilson Harris's writing."
Add this copy of Companions of the Day and Night to cart. $60.74, very good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Faber & Faber, London, 1975.
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. pp 83. Original publisher's black cloth lettered gilt on spine. ISBN: 0571106633 Fine in near fine colourful dust wrapper. With one slight closed tear & not loss. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
Add this copy of Companions of the Day and Night to cart. $66.67, fair condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Faber & Faber.
Add this copy of Companions of the Day and Night to cart. $103.72, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Faber.
Add this copy of Companions of the Day and Night to cart. $135.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Faber & Faber.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Author's second novel, as well as the second volume in the Guiana Quartet.
Add this copy of Companions of the Day and Night to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Faber & Faber.
