The Fisher King
A successful radio DJ unwittingly incites a psychopath to murder. Devastated, he renounces his former life and sinks into despair. Then he meets Parry, a former professor of medieval history, now a bum searching for the Holy Grail in New York. Their lives become entwined.
Jack Lucas is a man who has always looked down at life from the top. He is the menace of Manhattan's airwaves, the city's No.1 shock-DJ, but his off-handed arrogance triggers an incident that derails him from the fast track onto a precipitous decline through the looking-glass into a whole other world he never imagined... into Parry's world.
Once a professor of medieval history, Parry lives in a remarkable world of his own creation in order to insulate himself from a tragedy in his past. He now sees a singular New York and has the charismatic ability to permit others to see the world as he does — full of turrets and castles, terrifying red knights and damsels in distress.
Drawn to this unlikely saviour, Jack sets off on a heroic quest through the streets of New York to help realize Parry's noblest dream and redeem himself.
- Author
- Leonore Fleischer
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-015623-2
- EAN
- 9780140156232
- Release date
- 1992
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