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Another of Holdstock's Mythago Wood series (The Hollowing, 1994, etc.) about a primeval woodland where space and time are distorted and where ``mythagos,'' figures from myth, legend, or dream, become real. Chronologically, this entry comes first in the series, and tells the story of George Huxley, his adult son, Christian, and their mutual obsession with the mythago Guiwenneth, the beautiful red-haired warrior princess from pre-Roman times. Chris's mother, Jennifer, crushed by the whole business, hangs herself from an oak tree after the Arthurian champion Kylhuk emerges from the woods to mark young Chris as his ``slathan,'' a mysterious term not explicated until much later. When Chris returns from WW II, he, like his father, enters the wood in pursuit of Guiwenneth and finds himself bound to Kylhuk's warriors, who must fight the evil sons of Kyrdu over the fate of another hero, Mabon, entombed alive inside a giant tree. Holdstock's figures, from the Welsh Mabinogion, Irish and British myth, are recognizably human despite their mythic origins and magical surroundings. Holdstock's remarkable creation, drawing skillfully upon such rich, resonant background material, exerts an endless fascination. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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A gifted scientist was documenting the wild and ancient world of Ryhope Wood until he disappeared into that vast forest. Now his eldest son attempts to find him by using his father's own journals, but is soon distracted from his search by unexpected feelings for a mysterious Celtic warrior-- a heroine who is none other than the key to the mystery of the universe. Now both father and son are caught in a fateful relationship in and through the forest and the legendary lands contained within it!
Another of Holdstock's Mythago Wood series (The Hollowing, 1994, etc.) about a primeval woodland where space and time are distorted and where ``mythagos,'' figures from myth, legend, or dream, become real. Chronologically, this entry comes first in the series, and tells the story of George Huxley, his adult son, Christian, and their mutual obsession with the mythago Guiwenneth, the beautiful red-haired warrior princess from pre-Roman times. Chris's mother, Jennifer, crushed by the whole business, hangs herself from an oak tree after the Arthurian champion Kylhuk emerges from the woods to mark young Chris as his ``slathan,'' a mysterious term not explicated until much later. When Chris returns from WW II, he, like his father, enters the wood in pursuit of Guiwenneth and finds himself bound to Kylhuk's warriors, who must fight the evil sons of Kyrdu over the fate of another hero, Mabon, entombed alive inside a giant tree. Holdstock's figures, from the Welsh Mabinogion, Irish and British myth, are recognizably human despite their mythic origins and magical surroundings. Holdstock's remarkable creation, drawing skillfully upon such rich, resonant background material, exerts an endless fascination. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Book Description
A gifted scientist was documenting the wild and ancient world of Ryhope Wood until he disappeared into that vast forest. Now his eldest son attempts to find him by using his father's own journals, but is soon distracted from his search by unexpected feelings for a mysterious Celtic warrior-- a heroine who is none other than the key to the mystery of the universe. Now both father and son are caught in a fateful relationship in and through the forest and the legendary lands contained within it!
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