The City of Quartz

Rowan Sweeney is a thirty-three year old perpetual student with relationship and vocational issues. Out of desperation he takes a job with Douglass Green - a Doctor of 'something or other', publisher of 'curios', and New Age therapist living in Central Victoria. Rowan soon discovers Green has a hidden agenda involving Neo-Druidism, Alchemy, cricket, music, obscure languages, and a quantum computer. Asked to write a biography about Abraham Isles, 'an important 19th Century convict-mystic', Rowan quickly realises he's in over his head ... literally.

The novel is partially set in an Alternative Australia where the European colonisation of the continent took a different path early in the 1830s. The novel explores themes related to: the place of creativity in life and society, the impact of colonisation on indigenous peoples, New Science notions of self-identity, creativity and physical reality, and the age old conflict between Materialism and sacred views of the cosmos. It is also a story about love and assuming adult responsibilities in our complex post-modern world.

Author: Ian Irvine (Hobson)
Publisher: Zoetics Institute
Published: 05/21/2016
Pages: 564
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780646956329

About the Author
Irvine, Ian: - "Ian Irvine (Hobson) is an Australian fiction writer, poet/lyricist, nonfiction writer and editor living in Central Victoria. The author of four books, his work has been extensively published online and in print since the late 1990s. He also teaches writing and editing at Bendigo Kangan Institute and is co-founder of the Zoetics Institute - an organisation promoting the role of 'fundamental creativity' in the lives of individuals, and in society generally. He has also taught Medieval History and Sociology at La Trobe University (Australia) and novel writing and myths and legends for writers at Victoria University (Melbourne)."Irvine (Hobson), Ian: - "Ian Irvine (Hobson) is an Australian fiction writer, poet/lyricist, nonfiction writer and editor living in Central Victoria. The author of four books, his work has been extensively published online and in print since the late 1990s. He also teaches writing and editing at Bendigo Kangan Institute and is co-founder of the Zoetics Institute - an organisation promoting the role of 'fundamental creativity' in the lives of individuals, and in society generally. He has also taught Medieval History and Sociology at La Trobe University (Australia) and novel writing and myths and legends for writers at Victoria University (Melbourne)."

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