Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
Maps
Nota
PART ONE: Aut-
Prologue: Darker than Night
1. Roots and Trees
PART TWO: Winter
2. Illusions of Immortality
3. To Be Alive is to Be Awake
4. Solitary as an Oyster
5. The Gift of Poison
PART THREE: Spring
6. Pliniana
7. The Shadow of Verona
8. Portrait of a Man
9. The Death of Principle
PART FOUR: Summer
10. The Imitation of Nature
11. A Difficult, Arduous, Fastidious Thing
12. Head, Heart, Womb
13. After the Solstice
PART FIVE: -umn
14. Life in Concrete
15. Depraved Belief
Epilogue: Resurrection
Picture Section
Timeline
List of Illustrations
Footnotes
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
By the Same Author
About the Publisher
