Turtle Was Gone a Long Time, Volume One: Crossing the Kedron Book cover type:Hardcover and with the support of

and with the support of the Galway community

A darkly sensuous novel about two women whose bodies become the threshold through which the living and the dead insist on speaking

Peter Kuch

apart from a brief period in the United States

working with Jimmy Webb

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time, Volume One: Crossing the Kedron Book cover type:Hardcover and with the support of*Please note that this first edition (1991) has minor signs of foxing The title derives from the diver myth found in Siberia and North America, in particular among the Maidu Indians of California. Diving to the floor of the abyss to find intuitions of the world, the work is a mystical quest, from form to void and back, and enacts one of the central themes of European literature, the journey from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained. In a century in