I recently started a thread to promote the work of ‘one of our own’.
Most here need no introduction to
sirmyk .
While I still haven’t yet read it (I did get my copy yesterday though) I nominate this book not out of “loving” it but out of why-the-hell-not.
It’s always nice to help out someone, no?
Potter has your money now, Follett has your money now, you’ll read _The Historian_ *anyway* because that’s what you do; follow the crowd; support the mediocre, look for no new talent.
And it’s a rare occasion to have a book where the author him/herself can moderate/be available for the discussion.
Here’s the
thread :
And here’s the back cover blurb:
“Michael Bailey brilliantly blends horror and drama, art and pop, wit and mystery in this series of five dark, intertwined tales. With homage to Stephen King, David Mitchell, and Edgar Allen Poe, Bailey beats his own backward path into the deep dark woods of the human psyche and turns everything upside down.
Enter a cruel "palindrome" world: a strangely symmetrical place where disturbing incidents displace the rain-saturated Mayberry calm of contemporary suburban Seattle. A young father fights his suicidal urges. A failing marriage of two entirely unlikable people begins to unravel. An old man given to bouts of mental "whiteness" remembers the cruelty of the orphanage where he spent his childhood and how the "whiteness" began. A psychiatrist strives to understand a mental patient whose several uncanny abilities suggest something other-worldly. A school bully and the gang of misfits he tortures take a playground war farther and farther...
A hidden sixth story, told in reverse and interwoven into the others, uncovers the sad life of the "palindrome" child Hannah and her struggling teenage mother.”
So.
Available through Amazon or your local shop can order it (via Ingram).
Hardcover and paperback available.
It will be October (there’s even a chapter called “Pumpkin carving”), so drop the best seller crap and pick up a book that may give you the chills and you can rap with the kid that wrote it.
http://www.palindromehannah.com/
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