Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions.
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.John Fuller's first novel opens with the arrival of church agent Vane on a remote Welsh island where he is to investigate the disappearance of pilgrims visiting its sacred well. While Vane looks for clues and corpses the local Abbot seaches for the location of the soul.
When David's mother is killed in the Blitz he moves to a new life in Lancashire with his young aunt Jean. As he watches the adult world around him, a fighter pilot wakes to discover his brutal disfigurement in a world he neither recognises nor remembers.
John Fuller travels to the coastal town to find the characters and stories, watch Yorkshire in action and tap into Scarborough's enduring appeal.
"On a summer night in 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home through New Hampshire when a bright object appeared in the sky. It didn't resemble a satellite or airplane or star, but it seemed to be following their car along the freeway. When the couple finally pulled over to try to get a better look, the object vanished before their eyes. With nothing else to do, Betty and Barney returned to their car and kept driving into the night. Arriving home the next morning, there were more ominous signs: scuff marks on Barney's shoes; inexplicable spots on the trunk of their car. The trip left them rattled, but what came next was even more arresting: the Hills realized they couldn't remember anything for almost two hours of their drive. Time itself had disappeared, so the couple began looking for help, hoping to uncover what happened that mysterious night. Captivating and unputdownable, The Interrupted Journey is the complete story of those missing hours and the Hills' nearly identical accounts-as revealed to doctors under psychotherapy and hypnosis-which stands as one of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time. Thrilling, otherworldly, and wildly entertaining, The Interrupted Journey is an adventure that enraptured America and stands as the quintessential extraterrestrial encounter"-- Provided by publisher
Unidentified Flying Objects Over America Now
An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, John FullerIn this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from John Fuller, an abundance of memories abound.
This is the story of a man who was born and grew up in NOVA SCOTIA. HE slipped out of high school when he was seventeen and a half years of age and joined the RCAF. After starting training to be a pilot, he transferred to gunnery school and eventually became a flight sergeant air gunner. After two and a half years, and the end of the war, he was discharged and worked in various parts of eastern Canada. He travelled and played in several areas of the world including such places as South America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and parts of East Asia. This book is the story of his my adventures. It is intended to be a work of nonfiction but, because of a defective and sometimes selective memory, may also be viewed as fiction. Should this work ever reach print, I might, for a slight remuneration, be willing to include your name, remove your name, or provide a signed first edition. I should also advise that as I am a painter, I can supply a crappy 14 x 11 framed painting of a local scene for a minimal fee, painted with acrylic paint for only fifty dollars. This is a limited time offer. Don't worry that the fact that I am eighty-six years old might preclude me from concluding any or all transactions. Remember . . . ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.
`When does a poem end?' In this rambunctious romp of a narrative poem, John Fuller taps out the rhythms of life against the riddle of time: from his story of opportunistic art-dealer Old Billy Emerald and his fabled Shakespeare manuscript, to the ghosts of great poets and remembrances of old friends.