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Title: Laughing Boy's Shadow
Author: Steven Savile
Narrator: Peter Bishop
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-13-12
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
"My name is Declan Shea. I never thought I was monster.
"My life changed overnight. I was driving home from a gig when a tramp stepped out in front of my car. I killed him. I know I did. But no-one believed me. The medical staff at the hospital insisted he was the result of some sort of hallucination, because of trauma sustained during the accident. I tried to convince them otherwise, but the more I protested, the more obvious it became to them that I had damaged more than just my ribs in the crash, so I started to lie to keep them happy. I pretended he wasn't there. But he was. He was everywhere. And he was determined to destroy my life and take away everything I loved in revenge.
"How do you fight a monster no-one else can see?
"This is what he reduced my life to. I stopped being Declan Shea that night and became someone else entirely. I became a monster."
Laughing Boy's Shadow, international best-selling author Steven Savile's debut novel, charts the descent of an ordinary man into a murky world of very human monsters, grief, and madness as he wrestles to come to terms with who he is and just what he is capable of in the name of love. Published in the US, Sweden, and recently sold to Germany, this is Laughing Boy's Shadow's first appearance in Savile's native land.
Critic Reviews:
"A story about Death written by a man who has clearly consorted with devils. (T.M. Wright, author of A Manhattan Ghost Story)
"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)
Members Reviews:
Where the king started....
Declan Shea was a jazz pianist. That was all. He came from Liverpool, resided in Newcastle. That was all.
His life changed in a car accident one early Saturday morning, thinking he ran over a homeless tramp in the process. Soon, he became a pawn in a game of chess between two entities of Newcastle's street culture. He watched helplessly as everyone close to him suffered in a way not humanly possible. He even committed murders on behalf of the one who held his life in his hands. He lost everything -- only to find out he had been betrayed.
Steven Savile, the author of the Slaine series as well as The Vampire Wars trilogy, Curse of the Necrarch, and Silver, goes back into his roots with Laughing Boy's Shadow, a story he wrote nearly two decades ago. In it, the reader will find his style much akin to the style he writes with today: quick sentences aimed at drawing the reader in, making the reader's skin quiver as one peruses his prose.
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Title: Laughing Boy's Shadow
Author: Steven Savile
Narrator: Peter Bishop
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-13-12
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
"My name is Declan Shea. I never thought I was monster.
"My life changed overnight. I was driving home from a gig when a tramp stepped out in front of my car. I killed him. I know I did. But no-one believed me. The medical staff at the hospital insisted he was the result of some sort of hallucination, because of trauma sustained during the accident. I tried to convince them otherwise, but the more I protested, the more obvious it became to them that I had damaged more than just my ribs in the crash, so I started to lie to keep them happy. I pretended he wasn't there. But he was. He was everywhere. And he was determined to destroy my life and take away everything I loved in revenge.
"How do you fight a monster no-one else can see?
"This is what he reduced my life to. I stopped being Declan Shea that night and became someone else entirely. I became a monster."
Laughing Boy's Shadow, international best-selling author Steven Savile's debut novel, charts the descent of an ordinary man into a murky world of very human monsters, grief, and madness as he wrestles to come to terms with who he is and just what he is capable of in the name of love. Published in the US, Sweden, and recently sold to Germany, this is Laughing Boy's Shadow's first appearance in Savile's native land.
Critic Reviews:
"A story about Death written by a man who has clearly consorted with devils. (T.M. Wright, author of A Manhattan Ghost Story)
"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)
Members Reviews:
Where the king started....
Declan Shea was a jazz pianist. That was all. He came from Liverpool, resided in Newcastle. That was all.
His life changed in a car accident one early Saturday morning, thinking he ran over a homeless tramp in the process. Soon, he became a pawn in a game of chess between two entities of Newcastle's street culture. He watched helplessly as everyone close to him suffered in a way not humanly possible. He even committed murders on behalf of the one who held his life in his hands. He lost everything -- only to find out he had been betrayed.
Steven Savile, the author of the Slaine series as well as The Vampire Wars trilogy, Curse of the Necrarch, and Silver, goes back into his roots with Laughing Boy's Shadow, a story he wrote nearly two decades ago. In it, the reader will find his style much akin to the style he writes with today: quick sentences aimed at drawing the reader in, making the reader's skin quiver as one peruses his prose.