A mountain at the end of night
Subtitle: stories ofdream and vision
By: by Caroline Glyn.
Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 1977
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Short stories, English.
First sentence: There may be those who are interested to know that each one of these stories had its origin in a dream.  (from the Foreword)
Description: From the front inner book cover:  Many of Caroline Glyn's novels have pointed in the direction of religious mysticism; now this present volume of stories confirms her ability to integrate faith with a fictional setting.  Almost all the stories in this collection build up to some moment of transcendence, of deep illumination.  There's the girl who finds innocence, trust and grace in the unicorn who comes to her on Good Friday morn; the rabbi who finds 'the fire of God' in the Temple at Jerusalem; the visitor to India who initially is frightened, even disgusted, by some aspects of Hinduism, but achieves understanding and reconciliation.  On other levels, grace and joy are found in the precision of an opal-cutter, the goodness of a circus clown, the purchase of some fish from a market stall.  And the moment of illumination can be reached by surprising routes: in a dancing marathon; in the vulgarity of publicity slogans; in the strange attempt of an irreligious Jew to bring an irreligious Christian to Judaism, only to succeed in bringing him to Christianity.  CG is a writer with not only a theme but an interest in the hidden layers of the mind and their own mysterious ways of emerging.  Her own religious sympathies are deep and exceptionally wide-ranging, and she writes with a beautiful clarity.  Reading her book therefore becomes a moving experience on many levels.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 7; title: The Devil of the Snows
pagenum: 9; title: The Opal-Gougers
pagenum: 21; title: The Nun and the Clown
pagenum: 33; title: A Pilgrimage to the Dark
pagenum: 47; title: The Keepers of the Ancient Word
pagenum: 55; title: Ur
pagenum: 65; title: A Few Small Fishes
pagenum: 69; title: A Backcloth for the Bolshoi
pagenum: 78; title: The Burning
pagenum: 86; title: The Badger Mask
pagenum: 91; title: A Mountain at the End of Night
pagenum: 104; title: The Unicorn
pagenum: 113; title: The Song of a Little Boy Found
pagenum: 115; title: The Lion Who Sleeps With Open Eyes
pagenum: 137; title: The Rabbi and the Fire
pagenum: 146; title: The Hand of God
pagenum: 149; title: Christmas Bread
pagenum: 157; title: Saturday in Limbo
pagenum: 163; title: The Knights
pagenum: 170; title: White Magnolias
pagenum: 182; title: The Green Lollipop Kids
pagenum: 188; title: Eurydice's Grave
pagenum: 192; title: Easter at Rendon Castle
pagenum: 209