D.F. Lewis

[Nemonymous]

A PERSONAL REVIEW BY ARTHUR STRAKER OF MY NOVELLA ‘YESTERFANG’… Thanks to him.

“An archaeological story, looking back through the remembered lifetime of the author himself. Down through the fifties, sixties and seventies, primarily, utilising the tools of fiction and the internet to do so. This is not a rose-tinted trip down memory lane, but a yellow-ish, sepia-toned, journey through a post-Apocalyptic, post-World War Two, British landscape. The main protagonist is born at the start and we follow him as he grows up and travels around England. A coming (and going) of age tale, vaguely reminiscent of David Copperfield or Pip or Oliver Twist. But this is an England surrounded by ice (a Cold War) and one with every city or town named after a writer, like London, Lovecraft, Lewis, Proust, Poe, Swift, Rider Haggard.These cities are all different in character, but do not directly represent the ideas of the writer they are named after. Rather, they reflect gestalt reactions to the writer, both positive and negative. So, this fractured, splintered, re-imagined, autobiography of D.F. Lewis tells us a lot; whilst telling us the past is slippery and untrustworthy, constantly mutating in our minds.”