{"product_id":"the-image-of-a-drawn-sword-paperback","title":"The Image of a Drawn Sword - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJocelyn Brooke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe calm of Reynard Langrish's quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger - a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage. He takes Langrish to an ancient hill fort and introduces him to the men under his command, all of whom share a mysterious tattoo - two snakes entwined around a drawn sword - and are engaged in preparations to defend against a nameless menace, referred to only as 'the Emergency'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the dreamlike narrative rapidly accelerates into Kafkaesque nightmare, Langrish is drawn into a world where illusion, paranoia, and reality unite with lethal consequences, and disorienting shifts of time and perception culminate in a terrifying moment of pure horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1950, \u003ci\u003eThe Image of a Drawn Sword \u003c\/i\u003eis steeped in the themes and images that occupy much of Brooke's writing - the relentlessness of time, suppressed homosexuality, condemned love, self-hatred, and futility; and, above all, an England that was both real and uniquely his own, a mystical, half-known natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In its way not inferior to Kafka . . . [it has] a haunting, sinister quality' - Anthony Powell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Seldom have naturalism and fantasy been more strangely merged' - Elizabeth Bowen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'He is subtle as the devil' - John Betjeman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The skill and intensity of the writing made peculiarly haunting this cry of complaint on behalf of a bewildered Man' - Pamela Hansford Johnson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54304870170735,"sku":"9781509855858","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/IWfATtxf3t9781509855858.webp?v=1789559867","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/the-image-of-a-drawn-sword-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}