The viaduct / David Wheldon ; introduction by Aiden O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheldon, David, 1950- author.

Contributor:

O'Reilly, Aiden, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners--Fiction.

Political prisoners.

Escapes--Fiction.

Escapes.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Valancourt Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Richmong, Virginia : Valancourt Books, 2024.

Summary:

"A political prisoner, A., has just been released from a long term of imprisonment for writing a seditious book. Fearing re-arrest, he decides to leave town, setting off on foot along a disused railway track running over a huge viaduct that looms over the city. As his journey progresses through a surreal and nightmarish landscape, he passes through strange towns and villages and meets other travelers following the same path for reasons of their own, with his pursuers always at his heels. A. does not know what he may find at the terminus of the railroad line, and the ultimate horrific revelation of what lies at the end of his journey will linger with the reader long after finishing the book.The Viaduct (1983), the first novel by David Wheldon (1950-2021), was chosen by Graham Greene and William Trevor as the winner of the Triple First Award and earned praise from critics on both sides of the Atlantic, who compared it to the works of Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. A haunting, enigmatic novel told in a stark prose style that reinforces the book's surreal, dreamlike quality, it is a story that is both compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking. This reissue of Wheldon's cult classic is the first in decades and features a new introduction by Aiden O'Reilly"--Page [4] of cover.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain by the Bodley Head in 1983. First U.S. edition published by George Braziller in 1983.

ISBN:

9781960241214

1960241214

OCLC:

1452732686