The Doubleman (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj. Light foxing on book block.
In the shadowy world where folk music and dark obsession collide, The Doubleman charts the unsettling journey of Richard Miller, a Tasmanian-born man who rises through Sydney's 1960s and 70s music scene, only to find himself ensnared by a sinister mentor whose influence seems to cross the boundary between the human and the supernatural. C. J. Koch constructs a brooding, atmospheric narrative that draws on the Faustian myth and the esoteric traditions of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, weaving a tale of artistic ambition, spiritual corruption, and the terrible price of surrendering one's will to another. Koch, best known internationally for The Year of Living Dangerously, brings his characteristically rich prose and acute psychological insight to bear on themes of duality, identity, and the seductive power of evil — rendered here with a distinctly Australian sensibility. The Doubleman stands as one of Australian literature's most compellingly strange novels, one that unsettles as deeply as it illuminates, leaving the reader to wonder where ambition ends and damnation begins.
Author: C. J. Koch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, McGraw-Hill Book Company
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj. Light foxing on book block.
In the shadowy world where folk music and dark obsession collide, The Doubleman charts the unsettling journey of Richard Miller, a Tasmanian-born man who rises through Sydney's 1960s and 70s music scene, only to find himself ensnared by a sinister mentor whose influence seems to cross the boundary between the human and the supernatural. C. J. Koch constructs a brooding, atmospheric narrative that draws on the Faustian myth and the esoteric traditions of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, weaving a tale of artistic ambition, spiritual corruption, and the terrible price of surrendering one's will to another. Koch, best known internationally for The Year of Living Dangerously, brings his characteristically rich prose and acute psychological insight to bear on themes of duality, identity, and the seductive power of evil — rendered here with a distinctly Australian sensibility. The Doubleman stands as one of Australian literature's most compellingly strange novels, one that unsettles as deeply as it illuminates, leaving the reader to wonder where ambition ends and damnation begins.