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Eagles' nest

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I have just withdrawn my earlier review of this novel, because I have just reread it and wish to review it again - my views have shifted. Here's what I wrote the first time:

I came to this novel after being mildly disappointed by'Ice'.. (I have since revised my impression of 'Ice' after reading it a second time.) Whereas 'Ice' is a cold and bitter novel about futile struggle, 'Eagles' Nest' is hot, exotic and hallucinogenic. The naturally occurring 'drugs' that distort reality from time to time in the heat of the remote location our hero has fled to, create an eerie and lasting vision. And the flight from this place of apparent refuge returns the reader to the cold reality of everyday life - for me, with quite a jolt.

I noticed as I read this time where the apostrophe should be in the title - and corrected my error. I can't correct Amazon.com's.

This story is strangely hallucinogenic for me. I was left with lasting images when I read it the first time. But where were they? I didn't seem to encounter them again - something like them, but not the same! And now I have new striking images in my mind. This is very strange!! And, as I was reading the novel I dreamt, amongst other things, of a cloud suddenly dropping over me from a hugely precipitous height. I didn't remember that from my earlier reading of 'Eagles' Nest' so when I got to it I was immensely surprised - deep down I must have remembered it. This is a very strange novel, but also very engaging.

Other recommendations:

'Ice' by Anna Kavan
'Let Me Alone' by Anna Kavan
'A Scarcity of Love' by Anna Kavan
'The Tartar Steppe' by Dino Buzzati
'The House on the Borderland' by William Hope Hodgson
'A Crystal Age' by W H Hudson