Gog
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of British experimental fiction, Gog follows a giant amnesiac man who washes ashore on the coast of Scotland at the end of World War II and begins a hallucinatory trek southward toward London. Andrew Sinclair constructs a wildly surreal and politically charged odyssey that draws on Arthurian legend, Celtic mythology, and radical English history, weaving together the figure of Gog — the mythic giant of British folklore — with a savage satire of empire, class, and national identity. The novel is dense, visionary, and deliberately chaotic in tone, presenting England's past and present as a nightmarish carnival of violence and absurdity. Sinclair argues through vivid, grotesque imagery that the English nation is built on myth and brutality, making Gog a work of formidable intellectual ambition and raw creative power.
Author: Andrew Sinclair
Format: Paperback
Published: 1970, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of British experimental fiction, Gog follows a giant amnesiac man who washes ashore on the coast of Scotland at the end of World War II and begins a hallucinatory trek southward toward London. Andrew Sinclair constructs a wildly surreal and politically charged odyssey that draws on Arthurian legend, Celtic mythology, and radical English history, weaving together the figure of Gog — the mythic giant of British folklore — with a savage satire of empire, class, and national identity. The novel is dense, visionary, and deliberately chaotic in tone, presenting England's past and present as a nightmarish carnival of violence and absurdity. Sinclair argues through vivid, grotesque imagery that the English nation is built on myth and brutality, making Gog a work of formidable intellectual ambition and raw creative power.