Author: Peter Oliva. Published by Cormorant Books Inc., Dunvegan, ON., 2000, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author on title page. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light handling wear to cover corners. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inch, 179 pages.
DROWNING IN DARKNESS, is set in a coal-mining town in southern Alberta, this novel evokes elements of the fantastic that exist in the land itself. While one might expect a mine's roof to fall, it is in fact the floor that continually heaves up under a miner's boots.
The methane that seeps from the rock and circulates throughout a coal mine creates this magic, able to soften coal or induce sleep and incite dreams. The mine's gas-marbled darkness and the lost story about a woman from southern Italy bring about a fantastic/mythological suggestion that washes the reader of her tale right back to its beginning.
