Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
Jul 19, 2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber Fiction
Description
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.
The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.
The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.