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Voyages in the underworld of Orpheus Black
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"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been kill...
"Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city's Underworld" --
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- Creator
- Marcus Sedgwick, Julian Sedgwick ; illustrated by Alexis Deacon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- First U.S. edition
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, a division of Candlewick Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781536204377, 1536204374
- OCLC
- on1075025135
Subjects
- Orpheus (Greek mythological character) -- Fiction.
- Brothers -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties -- Fiction.
- Fire fighters -- England -- Fiction.
- London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
- English fiction -- 21st century.
- Brothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction.
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- Voyages to the otherworld -- Fiction.
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- London (England) -- Fiction.
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- Great Britain -- History -- 1936-1945 -- Fiction.
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