Mythago Wood
Author(s): Robert Holdstock
Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable ...and stronger than time itself. Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the mysteries of Ryhope Wood. On his return from the Second World War, he finds his brother, Christopher, is also in thrall to the mysterious wood, wherein lies a realm where mythic archetypes grow flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams, and in promises of freedom lies the sanctuary of insanity ...
General Information
- :
- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Gollancz
- : 0.302
- : 09 July 2009
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Robert Holdstock
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.914
- : 320
- : Fantasy
More About The Product
MYTHAGO WOOD is a true classic of fantasy, winning the World Fantasy Award, the British Science Fiction Award and France's Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire Robert Holdstock is 'Britain's best fantasist' (THE TIMES) MYTHAGO WOOD is one of the most-praised post-War novels of the fantastical, a novel that combines style and story to masterful effect Robert Holdstock's first new novel in years, THE BROKEN KINGS, will be published by Gollancz in January 2007, spearheading the arrival on the Gollancz list of his backlist, including the other novels of Ryhope Wood, LAVONDYSS, THE HOLLOWING and GATE OF IVORY, GATE OF HORN 2009 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of first publication of this classic fantasy Brian Aldiss has named MYTHAGO WOOD as one of his all-time Top Six Best Books, coming fourth behind Tolstoy, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson and John Heilpern's biography of John Osborne!
Robert Holdstock gave up his career in medical zoological research to be a full-time writer. His first novel of Ryhope Wood, MYTHAGO WOOD, won the World Fantasy Award. He lives in London.
