The Road To Vermilion Lake

The greatest strength of this work lies in the author's sure handling of the symbolic landscape. The novel works on at least two levels: a relatively conventional external plot involving the inevitable struggles of two lovers from drastically different backgrounds, and a highly suggestive internal movement, governed by a set of symbols linking the subjective and objective worlds. At times, this approaches an unsettling magic realism, in which Vermilion Lake and environs mirror the interior struggles and joys of the protagonists--for example, in the synchronicity between potentially destructive seismic activity and the development of the romance--creating a slightly eerie (but always intriguing) sense that the world in which these characters live and move and have their being decidedly transcends mere geologic data. This mirroring, combined with the suggestive binary patterning of characters and events, helps produce an elusive atmosphere that effectively reinforces the work's spiritual convictions as these work themselves out in the plot.--Dr. Stephen Dunning, specialist in both Canadian and contemporary British literature.

• | Author: Vic Cavalli
• | Publisher: Harvard Square Editions
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1941861407
• | ISBN-13: 9781941861400