Sleeping in Flame

By: Jonathan Carroll

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Paperback | 1 October 2004

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Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker's love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre-he discovers he can see things happening just before they happen, and at the same time feels an incredibly strong tug from his past-so a friend steers him to Venasque, an odd little man reputed to be a powerful shaman. Venasque helps Walker discover and unravel his many interconnected past lives, and it is soon clear that an unresolved conflict from these past lives has resurfaced, and now threatens to undo Walker and Maris's love.

At once lyrical, frightening, funny, and sexy, Sleeping in Flame is a spellbinding tale where reality and fantasy merge in astonishing convolutions of magic and suspense. It confirms that Jonathan Carroll is one of the very few novelists who-by constantly surprising us-give us an entirely new perspective on our world. It is no wonder that he is generally considered to be the most original and provocative novelist of his generation.

Industry Reviews

"I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats--with devilish tricks inside them."--Michael Dirda "Washington Post Book World " "Carroll is a magic realist who plunders our unconscious for profound emotional truths."--Carl Bromley "The Nation " Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes; and you will never see the world in quite the same way ever again.--Neil Gaiman Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism.--Jonathan Lethem "Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes; and you will never see the world in quite the same way ever again." --Neil Gaiman

"Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism." --Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes; and you will never see the world in quite the same way ever again. Neil Gaiman

Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism. Jonathan Lethem" "Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes; and you will never see the world in quite the same way ever again." --Neil Gaiman "Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism." --Jonathan Lethem

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