A Glastonbury Romance

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Pynchon folks might want to take a look at John Cowper Powys, 
specifically _A Glastonbury Romance_ (i'm halfway through) which has just 
been re-released by Overlook Press.  The story of a town in England and 
its mystical underpinnings as experienced not only by its citizenry 
(including an Profane like anarchist arranging a blasphemous Passion 
Play, an archeologist who just might be mad in renouncing this world for 
other mystical aspirations who is to play Christ in the aforementioned 
play) but also from the point of view of its trees, its rocks, its 
buildings, its streets, its rivers, etc.  Its over 1000 pgs so get your 
reading arms in shape.
Some critics consider Powys one of the first post-modernists.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org