Ebook {Epub PDF} Fourth Mansions by R.A. Lafferty

R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master by Lafferty, R. A. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Lafferty's Fourth Mansions is an energetic, rambling, and strange novel. It moves ahead with a bizarre narrative force, then moves sideways with some of the same force, betore jolting ahead again. A reporter who we are several times told is not very bright has been pushed by a strange miind-meld of people to investigate an immortal, or perhaps group of immortals.4/5. Fourth Mansions - Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty. I first read this in and most recently on the 5th October Fred Foley is an unassuming and over-enthusiastic news reporter.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for R. A. Lafferty - Fourth Mansions - ACE First edition pb at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif; Fourth Mansions: R. A. Lafferty: Ace Books (Ace SF Special, Series 1 #): / Fourth Mansions was inspired by Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, contains quotations from the book, which quotations Lafferty uses as chapter headings. The Interior Castle is a metaphor for an individual's soul; its different rooms, different states of the soul. In the middle of the Castle the soul is in the purest state, which equals Heaven.

There are seven sets of Mansions or steps to perfection, but the Fourth Mansions is the perilous step, the midpoints where the devil and his principalities counter-attack with all their fury. And that counter-attack, really the scenario of today's world, is the theme of my book.” —R. A. Lafferty, Interview by Tom Jackson, Lan's Lantern #39 (). Fourth Mansions - Fourth Mansions by R. A. Lafferty. I first read this in and most recently on the 5th October Fred Foley is an unassuming and over-enthusiastic news reporter. Lafferty's Fourth Mansions is an energetic, rambling, and strange novel. It moves ahead with a bizarre narrative force, then moves sideways with some of the same force, betore jolting ahead again. A reporter who we are several times told is not very bright has been pushed by a strange miind-meld of people to investigate an immortal, or perhaps group of immortals.