Arcadia / Iain Pears.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pears, Iain.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Fate and fatalism--Fiction.

Fate and fatalism.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Physical Description:

509 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]

Summary:

In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a young man who is about to embark on a quest of his own--and may be the one chance Rosie has of returning home. These breathtaking adventures ultimately intertwine with the story of an eccentric psychomathematician whose breakthrough discovery will affect all of these different lives and worlds.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2015.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781101946824 : HRD

1101946822 : HRD