The Hardy Tree - Hardcover
The degenerate area surrounding London's Kings Cross is the setting for the debut novella by young British writer Iphgenia Baal.
Beginning in the nineteenth century and spanning the next 150 years we are lead through a potted history of the overbrimming St Pancras cemetery, long before the metropolis rode over its bones.
Writer Thomas Hardy was also an architect, and was delegated the unenviable task by the Bishop of London of exhuming and dismantling the tombs to make way for this progress. Here he heads a cast composed of the living and the dead, set into turmoil
as the modern world entrenches on sacred soil.
A post-psychogeographic gothic tale of morality is backed up by a series of forged documents, maps and missives. Somewhere between the two, Baal creates a world where fact and fiction eerily blur; a sanctuary for the over-imaginative.
The Hardy Tree is a book-guide-manual about trains and brains and cliques and freaks. It is a demonstration of how stories are made and an argument for chaos, anarchy and lawlessness.
It is also a ghost story. With a happy ending.
Beginning in the nineteenth century and spanning the next 150 years we are lead through a potted history of the overbrimming St Pancras cemetery, long before the metropolis rode over its bones.
Writer Thomas Hardy was also an architect, and was delegated the unenviable task by the Bishop of London of exhuming and dismantling the tombs to make way for this progress. Here he heads a cast composed of the living and the dead, set into turmoil
as the modern world entrenches on sacred soil.
A post-psychogeographic gothic tale of morality is backed up by a series of forged documents, maps and missives. Somewhere between the two, Baal creates a world where fact and fiction eerily blur; a sanctuary for the over-imaginative.
The Hardy Tree is a book-guide-manual about trains and brains and cliques and freaks. It is a demonstration of how stories are made and an argument for chaos, anarchy and lawlessness.
It is also a ghost story. With a happy ending.
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About the Author:
Iphgenia Baal is a writer. She lives in London
Review:
- More conceptual art than prose. The Guardian
- London [..] seen through the eyes of an idealist exhumer. Vice
- A superbly ghastly take on modernisation... Times (blog)
- A dark, twisting collage of a novel... Times Literary Review
- A early tale of gentrification, St Pancras cemetry and the [..] developers who haunted it. The Independent
- Engaging and grim. Dazed & Confused
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- PublisherTrolley Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1907112294
- ISBN 13 9781907112294
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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