FULLER, John. Flying to Nowhere. Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1983.
8vo., mottled cream boards, backstrip lettered in gilt; in the semi-transparent matching dust jacket; together with the original Booker Prize Shortlist wraparound band; pp. [vi], 7-88, [iv]; upper edge a trifle dust soiled, else by all accounts a fine copy.
First edition.
Fuller's first novel opens with the arrival of church agent on a remote Welsh island where he is to investigate the disappearance of pilgrims visiting its sacred well. While Vane looks for clues and corpses the local Abbot seaches for the location of the soul.
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