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"In his enchanting, powerful book The Isle of Kheria Robert Cabot's passionate connection to the natural world animates gorgeous landscapes in Greece, in Italy and in the American Northwest. This story of a life-long friendship between two men is alive with vibrant details and told in Cabot's extraordinary musical, sonorous, evocative voice." -- Susan Cheever "[publisher]"

"Robert Cabot's masterful The Isle of Kher a interrogates the past, that mysterious land, which always beckons in the distance. ...Reminiscent of Fowles' The Magus, Davies' The Manticore, and Kazantzakis' Zorba, Cabot weaves narratives of Greece's past and present with the gossamer threads of his prose." -- Eric Utne "[publisher]"

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Obsessed, crazed with grief at the loss of his wife, Joel, now living a reclusive life in a farm commune in Canada, learns of the death of his dearest friend, Aidan. He is compelled to journey to an island in Greece, Kher a, where Aidan had swum off into a storm and drowned. Joel's is a pilgrimage, seeking answers to doubts and guilt about their friendship and the motivations and circumstances of the death, seeking release from grief in atonement and resolution.

The novel traces the lives of the two men in Homeric journeys conducted largely in Joel's dream-world conversations with spirit visitations from his past. Overall is the presence of a foreboding inaccessible rock of an islet, Kh maera, Aidan's destination when he drowned a fateful mythic monster, a chimeric illusion. The extraordinary, intertwined, sometimes ambiguous lives of these two men are compelling stories, spanning much of the twentieth century: childhoods in England and New England; frontline soldiers in World War II; Greece with its civil war, its cruelties, its beauty, its crass materialism; brief years in US government service; rebellious, seeking alternative lives in Italy, England, in the US and Canada, in Greece; lives of tragic loves and, in the end, of profound reward.

Fateful, Odyssean stories, their resolutions evolve from a despairing elegiac dream-world into hopeful reality. Stories told in haunting, poetic prose, a unique style acclaimed in Cabot's earlier novels, The Joshua Tree and That Sweetest Wine.