Literary Fiction
The entrance to Porlock
1970·270 pages
A reflective novel exploring personal and spiritual struggles in a small town setting.
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'The Entrance to Porlock' is the story of a journey, a quest, on the part of Peter Ringkoping, an octogenarian who lives on a small New England mountain where he has converted an old horse barn into a second-hand book store. On his journey he is accompanied by his two middle-aged sons, Tommy, a compulsive comedian, and Nels, dean and disciplinarian at a boys' boarding school. With them is Tommy's nineteen-year-old son, Tip. Peter Ringkoping, who sees ghosts and has moved ghost-like himself throu...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
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Religious content
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Spiritual quest central; holy man figure; meaning, grace, mortality themes
Magic & witchcraft
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Mild mystical Oz-allegory elements; holy man-magician figure
Occult / demonology
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Protagonist sees ghosts; haunting and blurred-reality motifs
Political content
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Brief themes of land gift to a disabled adult community
Self-harm / suicide
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