The Night Battles

Name: The Night Battles
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: M. F. Bloxam
ISBN: 9781433262937

Author: M. F. Bloxam

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/12/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Historian Joan Severance returns to the Sicily of her childhood, ostensibly to do research in the archives of the remote fortress town of Valparuta. In truth, her academic career lies in ruins behind her; she has been relieved of her teaching duties at Brown University after assaulting a student. Unable to approach her own longburied history of loss and displacement, Joan takes refuge in the cool library rooms and the crumbling probate lists from Renaissance times. As Joans disturbed, hyperintuitive mind falls increasingly under the spell of Valparuta and the charismatic resident archivist, Chiesa, a beautifully dressed heroin addict, she is forced to confront her longsubmerged past.

About M. F. Bloxam

M. F. BloxamÂ has lived in Sicily and the United States and is currently residing on New Hampshireâ€™s coastline. She is the author of prizewinning short fiction and creative nonfiction. A background in anthropology and museum work informs her writing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wisteria on March 03, 2009

Reading The Night Battles, evokes dark forgotten memories from the past when monsters lived under beds and in closets. Psychologically awakening this book will stimulate your neurons to that time long ago when fantasy fogged reality. Joan Severance, an anthropology professor at Brown University has r......more

Goodreads review by Wisteria on March 13, 2011

Reading The Night Battles, evokes dark forgotten memories from the past when monsters lived under beds and in closets. Psychologically awakening this book will stimulate your neurons to that time long ago when fantasy fogged reality.[return][return]Joan Severance, an anthropology professor at Brown......more

Goodreads review by Jesse on July 07, 2009

Excellent work for a debut novel. This is a darkly stylish and enigmatic tale of an ostracized academic and her awakening into a higher spiritual calling. Yet be warned, for this calling harbors hidden demons that dwell both amongst and within it. Having read the studies of Carlo Ginzburg, and being......more

Goodreads review by Lucie on July 28, 2011

Read it because it took place in Sicily. DIDn't much care for the story, but I liked the author's use of language.......more