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Flying to Nowhere

Flying to Nowhere

by JohnFuller (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $3.39

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    Paperback 1985

    $3.39
Synopsis

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. Magical and poetic, Flying to Nowhere awakens our secret hopes and fears and our need to believe in miracles.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 0099922606
ISBN 13: 9780099922605
Book Overview: The award-winning, magical first novel by acclaimed poet John Fuller.
 Prizes: Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1983 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1983.

Media Reviews
A masterpiece * Sunday Telegraph *
As rich and exciting as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but deeper and more disturbing... It begins as a murder mystery but ends in a revelation of deeper mysteries of death and rebirth * New York Times *
Highly imaginative * Guardian *
A short, charged and imaginative fable-cum-murder-mystery which uses [Fuller's] gift for narrative and for elaborate metaphor to great effect * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
John Fuller is an acclaimed poet and novelist. He has written eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Pebble & I and Song & Dance, both chosen as Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 2004 collection, Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy, published in 2006, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.