The Lighthouse Condition:Very Good As other banks crumbled

As other banks crumbled

Ambrose Bierce

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

love and the strength of friendship in the face of adversity

The Lighthouse Condition:Very Good As other banks crumbledOn 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,