A Glastonbury Romance to be reissued

[Ya Sam]

Has anyone read it? Is it really a neglected masterpiece?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Glastonbury-Romance-John-Cowper-Powys/dp/0715636480/sr=1-4/qid=1171218347/ref=sr_1_4/026-4357268-0446006?ie=UTF8&s=books


Synopsis
This is the first modern paperback edition of "the only novel produced by an 
English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and 
Dostoyevski." - George Steiner, "The New Yorker". John Cowper Powys has been 
acclaimed by some of the greatest minds of this century, from Henry Miller 
("my first living idol") to George Steiner ("supreme in English fiction 
after Hardy") to Robertson Davies ("a great writer"). "A Glastonbury 
Romance", first published in 1932, is his masterwork, an epic novel of 
terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it, he probes the 
mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury, 
and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mythical tradition from the 
remotest past of human history - the legend of the Grail. Powys's rich 
iconography interweaves the ancient with the modern, the historical with the 
legendary, and the imaginative within man with the natural world outside him 
to create a book of astonishing scope and beauty.

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