The Tollkeeper - Couverture souple

Vickers, Mark R.

 
9781732254008: The Tollkeeper
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1732254001 ISBN 13 : 9781732254008
Editeur : Vigore Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Klaus Rise is a creature out of legend hiding in plain sight. Through the darkest hours of the night, he maintains a low profile as a tollkeeper along a lonely stretch of Florida causeway. Then a drunken, loud-mouthed motorist causes Klaus to lose his stony cool, spurring him to narrate two intertwined stories. One is an epic coming-of-age tale set in medieval Norway and Iceland. The other is a modern noir mystery in which he encounters a woman with a mythic history of her own. Her uncanny aunts--who bear a striking resemblance to the Norns of Norse lore--learn his secrets and enlist his help to battle a mysterious enemy and an eminent domain case of immense importance. The surly Klaus wants no part of it. Yet, he is soon entangled in forces he can barely comprehend and a fate that has guided his implausible life from the day he was born. At the center of all the book's scams, schemes, seductions and savagery is a pristine Florida spring that must be preserved at all costs. Everything depends on the tollkeeper’s success…and always has. Often hilarious, sometimes heartrending and always an adventure, The Tollkeeper is a unique and beautifully written literary fantasy that blends elements of J. R. R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Carl Hiaasen and the sagas of yore.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Vickers resides in Florida with his multi-talented and brilliant wife, a homicidal tabby whose name is cursed by local lizards, a Siamese with an Oxford English-sized vocabulary and a towering oak tree that howls and dances madly during hurricanes. The Tollkeeper is his first novel.

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Éditeur
Vigore Publications
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1732254001
ISBN 13 
9781732254008
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
388
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