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THE CITY OF QUARTZ IBD

ZOETICS INSTITUTE
05 / 2016
9780646956329
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Sinopsis

Rowan Sweeney is a thirty-three year old perpetual student with relationship and vocational issues. Out of desperation he takes a job with Douglass Green - a Doctor of ',somethingáor other',, publisher of ',curios',, and New Age therapist living in Central Victoria. Rowan soon discovers Green has a hidden agenda involving Neo-Druidism, Alchemy, cricket, music, obscure languages, and a quantum computer. Asked to write a biography about Abraham Isles, ',an important 19th Century convict-mystic',, Rowan quickly realises he',s in over his head ... literally.áThe noveláis partially set in an Alternative Australia where the European colonisation of the continent took a different path earlyáin the 1830s. The novel explores themes related to: the place of creativity in life and society, the impact of colonisation on indigenous peoples, New Scienceánotions of self-identity, creativity and physical reality, and the age old conflict between Materialism and sacred views of the cosmos. It is also a story about love and assuming adult responsibilities in our complex post-modernáworld.áá

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