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Mercury

Anna Kavan (1994)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.76

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageModerate

Positive tags

SurrealAtmospheric

Protagonist archetypes

Unreliable Narrator

Synopsis

A man searches for a woman so he can save her from a sadistic husband, a search full of hallucinations which takes him across continents and seas. The novel is a drug-induced fantasy by a writer who died of an overdose, author of Sleep Has His House.

Tags

Psychological FictionLiterary FantasySurrealistExperimental