The Chosen

by David Ireland

Random House, 1997, [First Edition], ISBN 0091836255, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, pages age toned, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)

"An artist is commissioned to weave the portraits of a random selection of townsfolk in Lost River.  For this task he must interview each one - fifty-two in all, one for every week of the year - to discern the gestures by which he might portray them.  His work becomes an odyssey through humankind, its social, political, sexual, humorous and spiritual aspects.  the chosen few are enlightened, insane, larrikins, fools, psychopaths, mindless materialist ... people who have caught a glimpse of something strange, perhaps the borders of a world behind the everyday."