The Shiner

ISBN-13: 9781482663174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 280 str.

G. a. Johnson

Opis

G.A. Johnson's debut novel mixes spirituality and inspiration with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction. Murphy Johnson was the man the world walked around. He held a blank cardboard sign, a streamer of drool stretched down the front of his denim jacket. His eyes were like a frozen river, nothing moved on the surface, but the water flowed beneath an expression frosted over by four-decades of drugs, alcohol, and concrete beds. Life after witnessing his father's murder at the hands of the Klan was a narcotic waste land that took Murphy from Neshoba County, Mississippi to Denver, Colorado. It was here, under a tree in Civic Center Park, when he reemerged into consciousness.

With the "Occupy Denver" protests of 2011 as the backdrop, "The Shiner" explores the gamut of political chasms in society. The man the world walked around becomes the man who changes the world around him. Murphy is entangled in the lives of an ensemble cast of street dwellers, suburbanites and aristocrats. Besides fighting the ghosts of his past and the possibility of relapse, he fights for survival on the streets and in the world of his new employer-an escort service pimp. Villains are not what they seem and the innocent are less than so, but Murphy embraces them all with a child's love-even the man who is trying to kill him.