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Book SynopsisT. F. Powys is a forgotten genius like no other—and Unclay is his masterpieceTrade Review"Delightful." -- Kirkus (starred)
"Very few 20th-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. T.F. Powys is one of them. " -- John Gray - New Statesman
"Powys’s quaint village brims with eccentrics and sinners, and gentle humor exists alongside a brutal frankness about power and sex. It is hard not to succumb to the strange, animating energy in Powys’s allegorical tale about Death’s redeeming qualities." -- Publishers Weekly
"An esoteric genius: his books are puzzling, engaging, and illuminating, glowing with a gentle, a half eerie light, humane, ironic and wise. Powys gives pleasure and delight, unique and surprising music." -- The New York Times
"Grimly brilliant." -- John Carey - The Sunday Times
"One of the most original of all English storytellers. T.F. Powys’s novels and the powerful
Unclay ‘stand up like oaks.’" -- TLS
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Unclay is such an odd and unlikely book that it seems scarcely more real than the fictional books Borges delighted in. Behold visions that owe a debt to Blake and the novel’s theological concerns and earthy humor harken back to Swift, but Powys’s ambivalence seems hyper-contemporary:
I loved this book."" -- Matthew Keeley - Tor.com
"His masterpiece." -- Washington Post
"Heretical, scandalous, and mocking, but essentially parables." -- Jorge Luis Borges
"Mr. Powys is not a writer for everybody, but I am sure that he is a writer for posterity: indeed, of living authors I consider him the most notable, both as a thinker and a stylist." -- Sylvia Townsend Werner
