Archangel

Archangel

by Paul Watkins (Author)

Synopsis

Alone on a mid-winter night in the forests of North America, Jonah Mackenzie is pinned by a falling tree while cutting down wood for his fire and is forced to hack off his leg with a chainsaw so he can crawl to safety. But at the height of his subsequent war against the wilderness he finds that someone is systematically destroying him, until his own life is hanging by a thread. Mackenzie is forced to confront the excesses of his private war and compromise every ideal by which he has lived and fought.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 Jan 1996

ISBN 10: 0571177174
ISBN 13: 9780571177172
Book Overview: Archangel by Paul Watkins takes place on a mid-winter night and a dark forest as Jonah Mackenzie - pinned under a fallen tree - faces no choice but to hack off his leg with a chainsaw so he can crawl to safety . . .

Author Bio
Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School, at Eton and at Yale. His novels include Night Over Day Over Night, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, The Promise of Night, Archangel, The Story of My Disappearance and The Forger. He has also written about his experiences at public school, in Stand Before Your God. He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996, and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA.