Iago's Penumbra: A Metaphysical Novel

By Rose Guildenstern

IPPY Awards: Gold Winner, Visionary/New Age Fiction COVR Awards: Silver Winner, Visionary Fiction

Everybody loves a good ghost story, yet poor dead Vee feels anything but "good" being stuck upstage in the heavens of her own afterlife. She can peek in on Val, who's "downstage" with the living but haunted by ghosts. Then there's Julie, stubbornly stage left but longing to be downstage with Val. And finally, poor Peter remains solitary in his stage-rightness with the sneaking suspicion he might be dead wrong. Trapped at center stage lurks the demon Iago, willing to bridge heaven and hell to exit this cursed performance once and for all. Just as Good Omens revamped the book of Revelation and His Dark Materials reimagined Milton's Paradise Lost, Iago's Penumbra is a modern love story about the darkness that redeems us, rooted in the works of William Shakespeare--with a little philosophy, physics, and cosmic horror thrown in, just for fun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764366327
• ISBN13: 9780764366321
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Redfeather
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading or Banned Books List?

There is so much to unpack about Iago’s Penumbra that’s it’s hard to even know where to begin. On the Right Hand you could argue that Iago’s Penumbra should be required reading for all high school students, and on the Left Hand that it should be added to the banned books list. For the reader it is a well written and beautifully executed phantasmal love story, and for the Seeker, it is a love story like no other. Rose Guilenstern brings you Earth shaking allegories and metaphors; a convergence of George Orwell and Dion Fortune wrapped in a M. Night Shyamalan package topped with a bouquet of 12 Red Roses. An absolute must read, even for the non-fiction fan such as myself. Seek and ye shall find.