The Carp Castle - Softcover
MacDonald Harris's only hitherto unpublished novel is set in the 1920s against a backdrop of airships, mysticism, erotic love and a Europe that is picking itself up after WWI. A giant airship has been acquired by Moira, the mystic and clairvoyant leader of a semi-religious cult. The captain is Georg von Plautus, a Prussian WWI Zeppelin commander who harbours a terrible secret from a bombing raid over London in 1916. Moira and her followers have embarked on an extraordinary voyage in this airship to a place that she calls Giaconda.
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Donald Heiney (MacDonald Harris was a pseudonym) was born in 1921 and died in 1993. He is the author of sixteen novels, including The Balloonist and Tenth. In 1982, he received the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Sciences for the sum of his work.
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This previously unpublished novel by the late Harris is, like his well-loved favorite, The Balloonist (1976), also concerned with flight; this time it’s dirigibles (zeppelins) at the time of their ascendancy between the first and second world wars. In particular, the dirigible named The League of Nations is being utilized by a spiritualist group—the Guild of Love—to promote its message and to find its promised land, Giaconda, apparently a tropical oasis at the North Pole. The group’s leader, the presumably charismatic (though the reader gets little sense of it) Moira, a blend of Aimee Semple McPherson and Madame Blavatsky, gathers a coterie of followers onto an inflated airship outfitted like a luxury ocean liner and captained by German war veteran Georg von Plautus, who was involved in the bombing of England. Despite biographical backstories on Moira, Georg, and the others, the characters lack dimension, and despite ominous forebodings of the coming war, the story never gets airborne. Fans of The Balloonist will want to give this one a shot, but its appeal may otherwise be limited. --Mark Levine
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- PublisherGalileo Music
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1903385148
- ISBN 13 9781903385142
- BindingPaperback
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