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1997 marks the tenth anniversary of literary hypertext. In 1987 Michael Joyce created afternoon: a story, the first truly successful hypertext fiction. Eastgate has just published Joyce's second full-length hypertext, Twilight, A Symphony.
Michael Joyce's Twilight, A Symphony is a courageous and innovative exploration of home, family, and the nostalgia that can't ever quite replace them.  At the heart of Twilight, erstwhile reporter Hugh Colin Enright is estranged from his wife and on the run. Sequestered with his infant son on the shores of Pleasant Lake, Hugh is befriended by an eccentric Polish politcal refugee and his wife, Magda. Years later, Hugh and the ailing Magda are together again, on a macabre odyssey in search of the Twilight doctor, the only person who may be willing to help Magda end her life. In its fearless exploration of death and desire, Twilight, A Symphony takes an unflinching yet deeply compassionate look at the fears and longings that haunt us all.
Twilight, A Symphony is an original hypertext; like Eastgate's other titles, it is an entirely original work, not an adaptation of a conventional novel or screenplay. In Twilight, Joyce continues to explore sophisticated techniques of nonlinear narrative and complex patterns of linking to create a fresh and deeply moving literary work.
Novelist Carole Maso writes:
There is nothing
that has quite prepared us for the extraordinary
beauty and fragility and intelligence at work in Michael Joyce's
lyrical elegy. He is one of the most exciting artists at work today
in any medium.
 Twilight, a symphony requires no additional software. Now available on CD for Macintosh; Windows edition coming soon.
Twilight, a Symphony, by Michael Joyce. ISBN 1-884511-29-5 $24.95.
Also by Michael Joyce
- afternoon, a story
 - The most famous hypertext novel ever published. "A graceful and provocative work . . . utterly essential to an understanding of this new art form." -- Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review $19.95
- Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics
- Indispensable essays on the art of hypertext writing and reading. University of Michigan Press (hardcover), 1995. $29.95
- The War Outside Ireland
- Award-winning first novel, now a collector's item. Tinkers Dam Press (paperback) 1982. $10.00
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