If you are a strict fan of conventional prose then this novel may not be for you. The author manipulates standard English to convey a sense of an animistic world view in an ancient, archetypal time. Many articles are dropped, phenomena such as fire and wind are personified, and everything is given a gender. It makes for somewhat challenging reading at first, but once the reader becomes accustomed, the story flows well enough in the world the author has created. The story itself is simple. Mak Strife is on a quest to find God on the Golden Mountain. God is in the shape of the most beautiful...
If you are a strict fan of conventional prose then this novel may not be for you. The author manipulates standard English to convey a sense of an anim...
Even in the 1850s life had its pressures and stresses. John Smith has had enough, both of his loveless marriage and his kowtowing Managing Editor job for his father-in-law, industrialist and owner of the Bridgesport Sentinel. He drops it all and takes up light house duty. But maybe it's not his surroundings so much, he finds, as himself. A shipwreck disaster brings him some good fortune when a European scholar and man of the cloth Estabal Marak and a Tibetan lama Geshela Tsering show up on his doorstep, and Jack has the chance to encounter many of the ideas that have occupied his mind -- and...
Even in the 1850s life had its pressures and stresses. John Smith has had enough, both of his loveless marriage and his kowtowing Managing Editor job ...
This coming-of-age novel tells the story of a fatherless young boy's struggle to find his place in the world. Set in the 1980s and early 90s in the south-western coastal area of the United States, the novel is part hanging out, part road trip, and part alternate world. The vehicle for the story is an entity named Jacob who reaches Eric when Eric is quite young and depressed about his mother's sudden departure on a business trip during his birthday party, a party with only his mother and himself in attendance. Since they have recently moved, Eric has no friends. He has only the babysitter, who...
This coming-of-age novel tells the story of a fatherless young boy's struggle to find his place in the world. Set in the 1980s and early 90s in the so...
