The High Place
New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Cover Art by Howard Koslow; Interior illustrations Frank C. Pape. First Printing, Thus. Illustrated Wraps. Part of the Saga of Poictesme series.
Modest shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, age-toning is the only flaw to note; heavy spine crease. Used bookstore stamp inside.
In The High Place, Florian, a morally ambiguous hero, ventures into a sleeping-beauty narrative without flinching at its overwhelming beauty.
The story unfolds with complications: Beauty undergoes realistic changes during pregnancy, Florian's first-born child is claimed by Satan due to a pact securing Florian's success, and a fiery saint threatens divine retribution.
Florian teeters on the brink of damnation, only to be saved when Satan and the angel Michael conspire to turn recent events into a dream once more. Given a rare second chance, Florian learns from his experiences. [ Adapted from The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]
James Branch Cabell's aristocratic, whimsical, profane fantasies were a success de scandal in the 1920s.
Item #19158
ISBN: 0345282841
Price: $14.95
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