Book
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Delphi : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION POLL (CEN)
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Physical Description
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
"COVID-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters small and large that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator--a classics academic immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies--navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the future. Shifting her focus from chiromancy (prophecy by palm reading) to zoomancy (prophecy by animal behavior) to oenomancy (prophecy by wine), she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her very own home, and when she finally does, the threat has already breached the gates"--