The Lie of the Land :: Haydn Middleton Davids Story

The Lie of the Land The Lie of the Land, written by Haydn Middleton, is a novel nearly protagonist David Nennius and his past, present, and future. David tells readers about his past through sections entitled Davids Story, a narrative that he is writing in which he reveals secrets about his conception, birth, living, and impending death. Through this, we reveal that David is the son of the sky and that there is a wo piece of music who has claimed him as her own. This woman haunts him with the statement I know you, I have found you, and I willing not let you go, and in the end, he will dance in the brightest light the dance of death at the gateway to Albion (p. 84-85). He constantly lives in this womans shadow and cannot know happiness with another, so after his is married to Melissa and fathers a son, Art, David knew that he would dance before his time and that there would be much than one end (188). In this so-called end before the end, David found his 13 year old son being for ced to give a man oral sex in a bathroom in a park, and, outraged, David kills the man. Soon after, Melissa and Art leave, and after some time, David believes that he is abandoned a new beginning when he finds a man named Quinn at his allotment on top of the mound under which he had buried the man he murdered. In time, David loses faith in this false hope and believes that he has to die to atone for what he has done. This he shares with a girl named Rachel whom he meets at the Good Samaritan center. When Quinn and Rachel find Davids Story, they are convinced that it is the beginning of a very long suicide note, and the two intervene to keep David from taking his own life (154). Middleton, Haydn. The Lie of the Land. New York Ballantine Books, 1989. Ordinary PeopleOrdinary People is a novel about an adolescent boy named Conrad Jarrett. The story begins after Conrad has returned home from spending eight months in a hospital for attempting to commit suicide after he was involved in a sailing accident in which his old brother Jordan was killed. In the accident, a storm arose while the boys were on the lake with their sailboat. The two worked to control the boat, but it tipped and they fell into the icy water.