Powers fits together the lives of several historical figures - not just one Romantic poet but three: John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron as well as their literary acquaintances including Leigh Hunt and the petulant (and here vampiric and menacing) Dr. In terms of the number of elements he put together in his plot, the complexity of historical events he had to fit his plot into the interstices of, this may be Powers most accomplished novel. Raw Feed (2005): The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers, 1989. This is the book that started the processing of putting the expensive and complete editions of Clark Ashton Smith’s fiction and poetry on my shelves.Īnd I will be ending my Tim Powers series with a look at Declare, my favorite Tim Powers’ novel. It’s a sequel only that it is set in the same universe with the Nephilim. I have not read the “sequel” Hide Me Among the Graves.
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