Author(s): Anthony Lawrence

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Australian Fiction

To outsiders, James Molloy is nothing exceptional: an average student, perhaps quieter than most, sometimes in trouble, much loved by his parents. But James knows that he is different. He has visions, and in their eerie half light two worlds - the one that he lives in and the one that lives in him - collide, intermingle, coalesce. And sometimes out of the vibrant and amazing confusion inside his head come voices that glide from his mind into his mouth. Vision finds a language of its own. Alone, isolated by his difference, James faces a future without close companionship until the day that he meets Stephanie Riley. A sympathetic guide, Stephanie extends to him the encouragement of an initiate as she leads him to unexpected truths and possibilities. Driven to explore the half light of his life, to find out what lies at the center of his curious universe, James begins a heart-rending journey that takes him from rural Australia, where he falls in love with, then tragically loses, the sweetly spirited Tina Sewell, to the west coast of Ireland and the emotionally turbulent world of Sarah Carmichael, the hard-drinking, brittle, talented, and vulnerable fiddle-player in a band called Lapwing.

2000. First edition, first printing. A very good copy only marked by light shelf rubbing to the spine ends and light uniform age tanning of the pages. The d/w is near fine with light edge rubbing only.