The Lighthouse Condition:Very Good Desperate for work

Desperate for work

Ambrose Bierce

An out-of-work academic whose only hope of a future position is securing a book deal

Contexts connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil

The Lighthouse Condition:Very Good Desperate for workOn the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. "The Lighthouse," Alison Moore's first novel,