Volume 52, Number 6 · April 7, 2005
After the Last Battle
By Margaret Atwood
Visa for Avalon
by Bryher, with an introduction by Susan McCabe
Paris Press, 157 pages, $15.00 (paper)
The novella-length fiction Visa for Avalon by the writer who called herself Bryher was first published in 1965 and was reissued by the Paris Press in 2004, before the US presidential election of that year. Since it is set in the future—a future in which violent mass movements are causing uproar and a controlling government is restricting the freedom of ordinary citizens—it was seen by both its publisher, Jan Freeman, and by its introducer, Susan McCabe, as a book with a lot to say about the squeeze being put on liberal democracy by such draconian measures as the Patriot Act in the United States, and by similar tendencies elsewhere.
Review, 2932 words
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