The Affirmation
"With formidable imagination and ingenuity, Christopher Priest turns the novel into an Escher tessellation in which figure and ground are interchangeable. Bringing home to the power of narrative to steal reality, affirming nothing, it abandons us mid sentence, posed between page and world, discomfited and hyper-aware."  -- Sam Thompson TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.