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The Powell: the Fisher King (Cloth) Book

Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher Kingâ??the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval failed to ask the right questions. A myth with many permutationsâ??and a blurred borderland between themâ??the Fisher King legend dovetails the various explanations Powell offers from his competing narrators as to why a talented young dancer would forsake her art to care for a feeble older man.Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.Read More

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  • 039302363X
  • 9780393023633
  • A. Powell
  • 22 October 1986
  • WW Norton & Co
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 255
  • 1ST Edition
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