The Truth Within The Fog
Published on 19. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
358 pages
978-1-968296-93-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Truth Within the Fog is a profound literary novel that confronts the spiritual dislocation and existential unease of modern life. Rejecting the confessional style and ironic detachment so common in contemporary fiction, it returns to the depth and seriousness of the great prewar novel.
At its heart is Justin, a man wandering through the fractured landscape of a culture unmoored, seeking meaning, love, and redemption in a world adrift.
With echoes of Faulkner's decay, Camus' moral disillusionment, and Bellow's spiritual urgency, the novel stands as both homage and rebuke: a rare work of introspection, soul, and resistance against the trivial.
This is not a retreat into the past, but a reckoning-a quiet, forceful reminder of what serious literature still has the power to do.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
768 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-968296-93-3 (9781968296933)
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Person
Julian Mercer is a literary novelist whose work blends emotional realism with philosophical depth. The Truth Within the Fog is his defining novel, confronting the disintegration of meaning in modern life. He lives and writes in the Colorado mountains.