The Countenance Divine
$33.43
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2017
Summary
The Countenance Divine: A Tapestry of Time and Prophecy
In 1999, a programmer battles the millennium bug, haunted by the feeling of a looming destiny.
In 1888, a troubled young man, under the sway of a shadowy figure, commits heinous acts in London’s East End.
In 1777, William Blake, an apprentice engraver, experiences a profound spiritual awakening that resurfaces thirteen years later.
In 1666, John Milton, the revolutionary poet, finishes the epic poem that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473636514 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473636515 |
| Author: | Michael Hughes |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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One of the most exciting novels I’ve read in recent years. Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel. What begins with a dizzying variety of voices, in a bewildering set of times, comes together at the end into a powerful, haunting meditation on history, poetry and love - Toby Litt
A stylish and exciting novel with an intimate tale that spans centuries, and a captivating cast who help navigate the readers through a vivid range of settings - BookbagA fascinating chimera of a novel, hallucinatory and compelling - Jo BakerThe Countenance Divine moves effortlessly from deadpan humour and visceral demotic to the soaring language of the visionary. An ambitious and persuasive debut - Rupert ThomsonA virtuoso performance from a writer of quite prodigious gifts: an astonishingly accomplished first novel - Glenn PattersonA strange, witty and dazzlingly clever fable on art, ambition and morality - GuardianIt’s hard to believe that Michael Hughes’ The Countenance Divine is his first novel … a deft and ambitious debut … The time-hopping narrative and interconnectedness of all things draws easy comparison with David Mitchell, the master of interweaving narratives, but Hughes is equally up to the task … He also slips deftly between realism and magic realism reminiscent of Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black, which shows an incredibly assured touch for a debut novelist - StylistA novel of big ideas that flows, and reads, like a dream. Solid yet sinuous, and very satisfying - Gavin CorbettAbout The Author
Michael Hughes
Michael Hughes was born and raised in Keady, Northern Ireland, and now lives in London. He attended St Patrick’s Grammar School, Armagh, and read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He trained in theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, and has worked for many years as an actor, under the professional name Michael Colgan. He studied creative writing at Royal Holloway, and at London Metropolitan University, where he also taught. The Countenance Divine is his first novel.
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