Jim Dodge fue un novelista y poeta estadounidense cuyas obras entrelazan temas de folclore y fantasía, ambientadas en un presente atemporal. Su escritura se caracteriza por una voz única que imbuye a los lectores con una sensación de asombro y contemplación. Dodge exploró profundas cuestiones de la existencia humana, empleando a menudo elementos del realismo mágico para examinar la relación entre la humanidad y el mundo natural. Su legado literario reside en su habilidad para crear mundos que se sienten a la vez familiares y extraños, descubriendo verdades profundas sobre la vida en el camino.
Starting with his mother's roundhouse right to a nun's jaw, this is a modern odyssey of one man's quest for knowledge and understanding in a world where revenge, betrayal, revolution, mind-bending chemicals, magic and murder are the norm.
Life of Pi meets Aesop's Fables - a modern-day fable for adults
When Daniel Pearse's mother dies, he is brought under the guidance of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and high-stake gamblers exist. It is also a place in which magic and murder are the norm.So Daniel begins a road-trip across America, an extraordinary quest for knowledge and understanding, for a six-pound spherical diamond and for an answer to the question of who killed his mother.Subtitled 'An Alchemical Pot-Boiler', Stone Junction is an unforgettable outlaw classic.