An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky

By Dan Beachy-Quick

Book Overview

The Tree of Life meets In Search of Lost Time in this contemporary tale of loss and the power of story.

Daniel is pursued by stories. His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the novel he cannot finish for quantum mechanics, the place where theory tells tales about the real. And then there is Pearl, the girl beneath the floorboards, whose adventures hum alongside Daniel's own. In this contemporary, contemplative fairy tale, the autobiographical novel takes on the cast of legend, and the uncertainty of memory leaves reality on shaky ground. Can parallel universes exist? Can a preoccupation with Moby Dick overwhelm the story unfolding before you? Where do you stand in relation to the metaphysics of your own life?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566893410
• ISBN13: 9781566893411
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.4"