The Elf-Shot Boy - Couverture souple

Barnitz, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1940469201 ISBN 13 : 9781940469201

Editeur : Blood & Thunder Tales of the West, 2015

Synopsis

The Elf-Shot Boy is a story about a boy named Æl-fgar (Gar) who has what we now call Down syndrome. Just before the midsummer assembly, when boys Gar’s age become legal adults, symbolized by getting an iron weapon, a girl called Oshild is raped and murdered. Everyone thinks Gar is too simple to become a legal adult, but he takes it upon himself to help Hring, the assistant advocate in town for the assembly, investigate the crime. They discover that Oshild apparently stole the only copy of a charter that proves ownership of a nearby estate, which is being contested at the midsummer gemót. The more they investigate, the stronger the connection between the murder and the theft becomes. This promises to cause trouble for everyone, but all Gar is concerned about is avenging Oshild’s murder and getting his iron.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles Barnitz is an accomplished author who has published stories in The Denver Quarterly and The Madison Review and had a chapter of his novel, Mummers, anthologized in the Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. His cult favorite, The Deepest Sea, has been released in a 20th Anniversary Edition from Blood And Thunder Press. Many of his stories follow Hring, an 8th-c. former monk, now serving as an assistant advocate in the gemót courts of the Mercian province of Elmet. He is out to see balance restored, even if it takes a little creative interpretation of the law to bring the guilty men to the rope. Learn more about Charles at: www.bloodandthunderpress.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blood & Thunder Tales of the West
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1940469201
• ISBN 13: 9781940469201
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
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