Celebrated but crippled photographer, Saul Henchman sets out to cruise the British Isles in search of peace and fulfilment. Beautiful dancer, Barberina Rookwood gives up her career to be with him. Throughout, they are observed by novelist Valentine Beals, who becomes obsessed with the parallels between Henchman's story and the Arthurian Legend of the Fisher King, whose mystic destiny involves love, ambition, desire and sacrifice.
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Celebrated but crippled photographer, Saul Henchman sets out to cruise the British Isles in search of peace and fulfilment. Beautiful dancer, Barberina Rookwood gives up her career to be with him. Throughout, they are observed by novelist Valentine Beals, who becomes obsessed with the parallels between Henchman's story and the Arthurian Legend of the Fisher King, whose mystic destiny involves love, ambition, desire and sacrifice.
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Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean, bright, tight glued binding, unmarked. Saul Henchman, a man wounded in WWII is a society photographer travelling to the British Isles aboard the cruise ship Alecto, accompanied by a young ballerina. Their ship is characterized as a 1980s 'ship of fools'. He is likened to the Fisher King, from Arthurian Legend, who was maimed in battle and left to rule over a barren kingdom--his only pastime was fishing. A moving, comic novel. 256 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. W W Norton & Co, New York and London, 1987.
