by Christopher Priest
(Spitfire Mark XI, one of the main "characters" in the book) It does not look like it, but for me this is a love story at heart... As usual in a novel by Priest, I had to keep my wits about me. (In)Sanity is the word of the day. The 400 pages of “The Adjacent” are dense with encrypted epiphanies...
It didn't grab me quite as much as say The Prestige or The Affirmation, but I have to agree with others that it's quite brilliant. It ties together some of the themes and worlds of his other work into a very satisfying novel. I also found it a little more coherent than some of the author's other w...
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