The Angel of the West Window

This complex, ambitious novel, which centers on the life of the Elizabethan magus John Dee, intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality into a world of the occult, culminating in the transmission of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence. John Dee, through this twentieth-century descendant, is led by the green Angel to the "Other Side of the Mirror." From the erotically alluring Assja (in all her incarnations), the pliant Jane, and the mischievous Queen Elizabeth I, to the earless charlatan Kelly, the grotesque Barlett Greene, and the sinister Emperor Rudolph II, John Dee heads a cast of characters that linger in the mind long after novel has been concluded.