The Mountain of Gold
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
A deranged mother, a wayward father, a horde of gold, a naive young man, and a mysterious but beautiful Lady. . . . These are the ingredients of a coming-of-age tale in which our hero grapples with the elements, his sense of morality, and the Devil himself, and eventually finds salvation at the hands of an entirely selfless but sibylline Lady in Green. The Mountain of Gold addresses themes of love, doubt, avarice, and the liberating and redemptive powers of self-sacrifice.
Endorsements (2)
“The Mountain of Gold is a marvelous and vast poetic achievement filled with echoes and resonances of the medieval quest romance, Dante, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, folk tale, the Bible, Tolkien, and much more. It is a deeply religious poem that digs back into cultural antiquity, a remarkable and imaginatively sustained achievement in verse that provokes much meditation.”
“A splendid, cinematic coming-of-age tale—good and evil are at loggerheads. Will love win? A boy’s father flees in search of riches, leaving a bereaved wife to go mad with grief. Frightened by her violent outbursts, the boy flees to the forest. There, a woodland sylph rescues him from eternal damnation by revealing the true nature of avarice and the power of true love.”
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