The Year of the Dog

ISBN-13: 9781479243440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 482 str.

Jack Keppler

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The Year of the Dog is a 150 000 word novel playing in Washington DC in the first few months of 1994. The intense coming-of-age/crime/love story is supported by great literary knowledge and an unusually deep understanding of the human heart and mind. As young Keith crosses paths with two beautiful women and two powerful older men in Washington, DC, their stories crash into each other in a way none of them were prepared for. Once a series of interlocking events sends him diving into DC's dark core of drug smuggling, campaign finance, and international guerilla warfare, Keith will lose his illusions, his innocence, and nearly, his mind. Between rash Keith, sly and skillful Tara, cool Kelly, tragically grand and villainous Sef, and dazzling Senator Cobb, it is never quite clear who is the hunter and who is the prey. Will fate dole out just punishment, or will it simply cut down the innocent? Inevitably, lives will be lost and also the survivors will bear their scars forever. The Year of the Dog is a thrilling coming-of-age story about sex, dependency, and crime, inviting the reader on the long, perilous, yet necessary, detour that life takes on its path to real love. As Keith's character and destiny unveil themselves, you will find yourself drawn into the colorful interactions of DC's varied population. Trading power, sex and money, while constantly aspiring to something higher, Washingtonians have never been depicted in starker colors, nor with more understanding and empathy. This gripping, extremely visual and graphic novel by Jack Keppler is a captivating read about the mesh formed by the forces of light and dark and the search for love that hurls us forward trying to disentangle it.

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