The Canons: Stone Junction
- 544 páginas
- 20 horas de lectura
Jim Dodge's unforgettable outlaw epic. Introduced by Thomas Pynchon
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.




Jim Dodge's unforgettable outlaw epic. Introduced by Thomas Pynchon
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.
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