Jun 08 2008
The Affirmation
ISBN: 9780575075771 DDC: 823.914
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This much I know for sure.
My name is Peter Sinclair, and I am, or I was, twenty-nine years old. Already there is uncertainty, and my sureness recedes.
Peter Sinclair is 29, and, following his girlfriend’s attempted suicide he runs away from London, to the countryside. There he is supposed to be redecorating and doing up a family friend’s cottage in return for being allowed to stay there. But he gets distracted and begins to write his autobiography. In the course of writing this he discovers that the real truth can only be found within metaphors and through creating an alternate version of his past. And so he begins to write of his past in Jethra. He renames and recreates his family and friends. He recreates a reality.
Tags: 8 Stars, 823.914, Christopher Priest, reality, self-creation, sff, suicide, The Affirmation, unreliable narrator