HW Press Presents:
Laughing Boy’s Shadow by Steven Savile
Laughing Boy’s Shadow - Copyright ©2006 by Steven Savile
HW Press - ISBN: 978-0-9792346-0-6
265 Pages
Limited to 300 copies signed by Steven Savile, Robert Sammelin and Gary Braunbeck
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From the cover:
"Your problem, city, is that you have no soul.
Declan Shea learns the depth of this lie through a series of brutal events, as systematically, an evil as old as the city itself strips him of every last shred of hope and humanity. A road accident, a bag lady, a bird man, renegades from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, all of these nightmares converge in one horrific moment under a dark bridge. Declan's live can never be the same because that city, the one without a soul, has chosen him as its champion.
As war rages in the dark places of Newcastle, Declan Shea must fight to survive.
How do I know?
My name is Declan Shea. It is all that I have left. I come back here to look at the lights across the water, out of reach like the gates of heaven. More than anything, I want to start walking. You won't understand what that means, not yet, but you will..."
Read an excerpt here
"A raw, gritty novel: part social commentary, part philosophy, part fantasy. Savile handles his episodes of graphic violence skillfully, eschewing cliches and shock tactics in favor of understated, detached narration, and the result is a genuinely chilling portrait of total alienation. Savile's novel is original, smart, and well-written; his disturbing images and bleak prose and both thought-provoking and genuinely unsettling." Rue Morgue
"The tale is compelling. The protagonist Declan Shea’s transformational journey through the underground; his confrontation with the marvellously named Crohak and the Rookery; the iconic imagery cheerfully interwoven with allusions cribbed from L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll and Joseph Campbell make for a dark intriguing sojourn through a mythic urban landscape of bewildering wonderment." Fear Zone
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