The Black Dragon

By: McEnery, Jay

THE BLACK DRAGON / RATTUS NORVEGICUS / MONKFISH Elysia School is the setting for the three novels of the Elysia Trilogy by Jay McEnery. Located in beautiful English countryside, with privileged students and a progressive philosophy allowing its denizens freedom to develop on their own terms, in theory it is an idyll. In reality, however, it is a disintegrating moral wasteland and a breeding ground for mental disorder, sexual deviation and existential despair. Jay McEnery's Elysia is a metaphor for the West at the end of the second millennium: a theoretically rich society, finally freed from the bonds of hardship, hierarchy and intolerance, yet still imprisoned in an endless cycle of futile striving, encroaching nihilism and a surprising propensity for meaningless violence. Three engaging stories set in and around the 1980s which explore modern angst with humor, tenderness and even nascent hope, in a study of a world which has almost lost faith in itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409230015
• ISBN13: 9781409230014
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"