An utterly beguiling oddity from the ever-versatile Russell Hoban, Amaryllis Night and Day drifts lyrically between reality and dreams as two ambiguous characters conduct a very singular affair across London. Enigmatically written and haunting, Hoban’s remarkable book will stay with you forever.
The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said Balsamic, although there was nothing vinegary about the place.
The bus was unthinkably tall, made of yellow, orange and pink rice paper, lit from within like a Japanese lantern. That was a dream, but where this romance goes as the dream begins to intersect reality is nothing that a reader can be prepared for.
'Trust me, I'm a weirdo,' says Amaryllis as she and Peter embark on their nocturnal experimentation, which leaves no one, on quite the same footing with reality.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780747553816
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 159 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
'Hoban writes with such wide-eyed wonder as to suggest that keeping the beautiful mysteries of the world intact is more important than solving them' METRO
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