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Ness

by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood

LiteratureEnvironmental disastersPoetryFictionParables
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"Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving towards the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect."--

Themes & subjects

LiteratureEnvironmental disastersPoetryFictionParablesFables

About the author

Robert Macfarlane

1976

Authors

Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood

Pages

72

Read time

≈ 2h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9780241396575

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