Ascent to Omai / Wilson Harris.

By:

Harris, Wilson

Series: Caribbean Modern Classics | Caribbean modern classicsPublication details: London, Faber, 1970.Description: 3-128 pages; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0571090591
9780571090594
9781845233549
1845233549

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

F, Mar

LOC classification:

PZ4.H318 As PR9320.9.H3

Other classification:

HQ 7400

Action note:

160497 Charm

Summary: Wilson Harris's ninth novel, first published in 1970, is a work of the most revolutionary and far-reaching kind of science or speculative fiction. Victor is in search of his father, Adam, once a revolutionary worker who was sent to prison many years ago for burning down the factory he worked in. Since then Victor has lost touch with him, but suspects he is living as a pork-knocker (gold prospector) in the remote Cuyuni-Mazaruni district of Guyana. As he climbs in search of his father, Victor both revisits his past relationship with him and replays his father's trial, which also becomes his own. Victor's search is for spiritual grace, for the compensations of love and the glimmerings of a true understanding of the world he exists in, and the reader is invited to share in Victor's struggling ascent to consciousness, knowing that it can never be other than provisional.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Mar (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000008480
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Mar (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000030290
Books	OCLC Data			Available	0000000000189
Books	OCLC Data			Available	0000000000387

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Wilson Harris's ninth novel, first published in 1970, is a work of the most revolutionary and far-reaching kind of science or speculative fiction. Victor is in search of his father, Adam, once a revolutionary worker who was sent to prison many years ago for burning down the factory he worked in. Since then Victor has lost touch with him, but suspects he is living as a pork-knocker (gold prospector) in the remote Cuyuni-Mazaruni district of Guyana. As he climbs in search of his father, Victor both revisits his past relationship with him and replays his father's trial, which also becomes his own. Victor's search is for spiritual grace, for the compensations of love and the glimmerings of a true understanding of the world he exists in, and the reader is invited to share in Victor's struggling ascent to consciousness, knowing that it can never be other than provisional.

160497 Charm

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