- Psychiatrists, Fiction, Canadian Science fiction, New York Times reviewed
When Lilah Kemp, a schizophrenic, unemployed librarian and sometime spiritualist, accidently frees the evil Kurtz from the pages of Heart of Darkness, she searches desperately for a Marlow to help her return him before it is too late.
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Grave, spare, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Timothy Findley
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 572
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, HarperFlamingo Canada, Crown Publishers
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, French, dan, German
- ISBN
- 9788755514119
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Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC OOnt, was a Canadian novelist and playwright. *--Wikipedia*
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