Visa For Avalon
Robinson has retired to the peaceful fishing village of Trelawney, where he lodges with Lilian, a widow much attached to her snug cottage. But there have been vague intimations of the growing strength of a tyrannical political force known as the Movement, and when the government abruptly requisitions her home, Lilian, along with many others, suddenly awakens to the fact that she has no place in this cruel new world. She and Robinson hastily seek permission to immigrate to the distant land of Avalon, but it may be too late. So begins this tautly constructed, chillingly dramatic, and profoundly resonant novel of warning. When it was first published in 1965, Britian-born and Switzerland-based Bryher (1894-1983) was a popular historical novelist, but her work has long been out of print, and her fascinating life--she was also a pioneering publisher and philanthropist who helped dozens of Jewish and German intellectuals escape Nazi persecution--has nearly been forgotten. This is an inspired and timely resurrection of an incisive and provocative fable of the high cost of apathy and the insidiousness of fascism, an intriguing progenitor to Philip Roth'sThe Plot against America[BKL Ag 04], and readers will find the accompanying profile of Bryher equally compelling.Donna SeamanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved