Nine-Tenths Unseen [Paperback]

Kenneth J. Harvey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1996

Nine-Tenths Unseen is the extraordinary portrait of the innermost shadows of relationship and the nature of perception. It is a story that boldly confronts madness, Catholicism, polysexuality, misogyny, paganism, and the electricity of violence that all roil furiously at its terrifying core.

Harvey has conjured a breathtaking moral tale that slams a mystic stake through our very notion of reality.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"As a portrait of mental and spiritual disorder, it is often brilliant; its densely worked imagery forms an overwhelming, apocalyptic riddle." -- Quill & Quire

About the Author

Kenneth J. Harvey is a critically acclaimed author, with short story collections, a novel, a thriller, and a collection of poetry to his credit.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Somerville House Books; First edition. edition (April 1, 1996)
• ISBN-10: 1895897653
• ISBN-13: 978-1895897654
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,349,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

International bestselling author Kenneth J. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Globe & Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Telegraph Journal, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and Halifax Daily News.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars exellent, June 23, 2004

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars another one for the bonfire, May 3, 2009

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RAH RAH RAH (SONGBIRD ISLAND) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Nine-Tenths Unseen (Paperback)

Swayed by the positive reviews, and probably among the people who rated the gibberish review as helpful, I took a chance on this book. So really, I only have myself to blame, but I thought to offer a little warning for other fools like myself. The content of Harvey's book is forgettable, but it has something to do with the mundanity of a seaside town and the protagonist's perspective of this totally exhausted kind of speculation. I thought his wife's madness might be of some interest, but it is all too contrived and presented more to dazzle than to elucidate or explore. Maybe this changes later on, but only a few chapters in the bad eroticism began to creep in too regularly and I eventually had to throw the book onto the floor. I am all for eroticism, even the occasional vulgarities of de-eroticism, but not the sort of tedium to be found here, obliging the more discerning reader to skip ahead pages at a time. Maybe if you are fifteen or this kind of redundancy is your style this book might be of interest, but perhaps you would be more interested in a full-blown romp, such as Charles Platt's "The Gas."

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, Disturbing, Beautiful, May 31, 2006

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Autumn Star Kindelspire "The Autumn Star" (Westchester, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine-Tenths Unseen (Paperback)

As usual, Harvey's narrative [...] into the world of his characters immediately. He's a master craftsman when it comes both to story and the written word. The themes in Nine-Tenths Unseen are pretty heavy and some of it can be disturbing, but rest assured that you are reading the work of a master, and he knows where he's going. I highly recommend it!