[spectre] Cosmic meltdown

[Séamas Cain]

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*Invitation to Book Launch*


PARVIT OF AGELAST

by Máighréad Medbh

(a fantasy in verse)

published by Arlen House

available through Amazon and other outlets

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Saturday, 3 September 2016, at 3:00 p.m.,

Pearse Street Library

on Pearse Street,

Dublin 2, Ireland

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“This highly evolved verse novel, inspired by the flamboyancy of Pauline
Bewick's visual art, operates on several levels, as a documentary of faces
which proffers an extreme spiritual purification, as the transfiguration of
a tormented quasi-human substance, as a powerful critique of an environment
where reality and experience diverge.  Orwellian, Swiftian in the satiric
bite of its allegory, a parable of genetic modification and cosmic
meltdown, it is relieved by witty offhand prose asides, it bursts and
wrests grammar and language to rise to sophisticated effects ... With its
bizarre cast and victim heroine it lends itself to a futuristic film or
stage drama adaptation.”

— Medbh McGuckian

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“Maighréad Medbh has long been known as an astute, involved and incisive
commentator on our world.  Here she has made an entire world never before
known, self-conceiving, self-involved ... its own immanent god.
Boundary-breaking even in its form (a fantasy novel in verse) ...

“PARVIT OF AGELAST is something entirely new under the sun.”

— Theo Dorgan

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Transfiguration & critiques,

Séamas Cain
http://www.priosma.net
http://seamascain-writernetwork.org

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