The Ice Mines - Couverture souple

Leake, Jerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235028333

Editeur : Jerry Leake, 2026

Synopsis

Seven stories about people in the dark.

A man wakes on a train three years after something happened in an abandoned ice mine, and tells a stranger in the bar car why he's going back.

A census taker in 1964 spends twenty-four hours hiding behind a wall of other people's clothing while a woman with a shotgun fires across a creek. He never does find out whose clothes they are - not until a five-year-old tells him.

An astronomer looks through an experimental lens and finds himself on the other side of it, three hundred million light-years from his own chair, watching a war nobody on Earth knows is happening.

A thief has himself convicted of a small burglary so that maximum security will be his alibi for a very large one.

A girl of thirteen asks for one birthday present - a weekend on her father's boat - and comes back alone at the helm.

And a seventeen-year-old sits across from a court psychiatrist and explains, calmly, what happened to her twin brother at a condemned mine in Oklahoma. She has told it eleven times. Nobody believes the part about the rats.

Seven stories, seven narrators, and not one of them is rescued by anybody but themselves. Some of them aren't rescued at all.

From the author of The Jack's Alive Trilogy and Lethal Injection.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jerry Leake is the author of ten books of fiction and nine books on rhythm and percussion. His fiction ranges across thrillers, dark fantasy, and literary suspense - the Jack's Alive trilogy, the Twin Crossing duology, Lethal Injection, The Soul Searcher, Sand and Ceremony - and often draws on the places and people he knows firsthand. He has also written cartoon and comic collections - Far Fetched, Dogbreath - and books for younger readers. He is a Professor of World Percussion at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His percussion texts on North Indian, South Indian, West African, and Afro-Cuban rhythm are used by students and players worldwide. He has studied and performed in Ghana and India, and is a founding member of Natraj and Club d'Elf, leads the world-rock fusion octet Cubist, and has long played with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jerry Leake
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235028333
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible