These Demented Lands

By: Alan Warner

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Paperback | 6 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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After the critical success of his first novel, Morvern Callar, Alan Warner has written an extraordinary, stirring sequel to Morvern's odyssey, confirming him as one of the most original, uniquely gifted writers to have appeared this decade.

An air-crash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island--around the isolated honeymoon hot spot, the Drome Hotel--gathering the debris from fallen planes that the islanders have fashioned into makeshift sheds and fences; but what kind of jigsaw is he really assembling as he paces the runway?

A young woman makes landfall on the island, crossing the interior to arrive at the Drome Hotel: desperate, strange--and strangely familiar.

Meanwhile, DJ Cormorant is trying to organize The Big One, a rave on the adjacent airstrip, and from all over These Demented Lands come twisted characters, converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.

Industry Reviews

"Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one... glorious... powerful" * Independent * "A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland" * Independent on Sunday * "Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel" * Times Literary Supplement * "Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child" * Scotsman * "With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist" * Esquire *

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