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An alchemical potboiler book online at best prices in india on. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. Stone junction an alchemical potboiler by jim dodge paperback 9781786893970 published by canongate 23 may 2019. Evidently, this is a cult favorite that has escaped me up until now. Story of three loners that come together to form an unlikely family. Jan 12, 2011 a search for alliance of magicians and outlaws in worldcat turns up stone junction. That author jim dodge holds it all together is a fine feat in and of itself, but he does more than that. Dodge,jim jim dodge used books, rare books and new books. A postpsychedelic comingofage fable thats part thomas pynchon, part tolkien, part richard brautigan. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Stone junction by jim dodge kindle edition alchemical potboiler, a postmodern psychedelic journey of discovery around the fringes of society, something that inspires the soul to ask questions and peer behind curtains. Starting with his mothers roundhouse right to a nuns jaw, stone junction is a modern odyssey of one mans quest for knowledge and understanding in a world where revenge, betrayal, revolution, mindbending chemicals, magic and murder are the norm. Post road feels like it is put out by actual people.

This book is the 1493rd greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. I agree with barry gifford that it is a jewel in a bucket of stones. Stone junction is vividly imagined, rich in incident and character, full of intriguing, offbeat information. Jim dodge is the author of three novels, including fup and not fade away, and a collection of.

A hip, lavishly padded romp through an imaginary underground railroad, by former west coast cultwriter dodge fup, not fade awaywho aptly subtitles this effort at a fat pageturner an alchemical potboiler. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the stone junction an alchemical potboiler, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mindbending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and highstake gamblers coexist. In stone junction, jim dodge has given it an imaginative, delightful and. Books by jim dodge authors like jim dodge what should i. Aptly subtitled an alchemical potboiler, and smartly crafted, dodges not fade away third novel may be his first cult classic. Annalee pearce is a pregnant 16yearold who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to cooperate with authorities. Determined to escape a bleak catholic home, his mother, annalee, then kidnaps. Fup, his first effort, is a charming but limited short parable.

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Stone junction an alchemical potboiler by jim dodge. Stone junction is about the world behind the world, the people we sledom get to know. Back in the 1960s, a young hippie is recruited by a semisecret society called the alliance of magicians and. Haruki murakami david mitchell patrick suskind irvine welsh charles bukowski robert m pirsig william s burroughs. On the title page it calls itself an alchemical potboiler. He lives on an isolated ranch in western sonoma county and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years and a woodcutter. Jim dodge has reached the pinnacle of his writing powers in this his third novel. In stone junction, jim dodge has given it an imaginative, delightful and thoroughly original twist. The blurbs of thomas pynchon compiled by patrick lane from post road 14 selected by wesley stace, author of by george and misfortune. Jim dodge growing up under the influence of a shadowy organizationthe alliance of magicians and outlaws, daniel pearse eventually runs into the wrong side of the law. Up to 20 books are listed, in descending order of popularity. Daniel pearse is born in 1966, of an unknown father and a beautiful, headstrong teenage mother. The small rain, lowlands, entropy, under the rose, and the. The kind of book that inspires you to smear yourself in pigs blood and stand.

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It is a world of crime, and conspiracies, and greed, and love, and magic. Not fade away, his second effort, presented an amazing journey without much of a destination. Dec 01, 2007 a postpsychedelic comingofage fable thats part thomas pynchon, part tolkien, part richard brautigan. Buy stone junction main by dodge, jim, pynchon, thomas isbn. Evidently, this is a cult favorite that has escaped my attention until now. A near fine first printing of the first edition with some sunning to the boards in a near fine dustjacket with some light soiling, signed and inscribed by author jim dodge. This page contains details about the fiction book stone junction. Thomas pynchon the theme of a boy orphaned by fate, on a search for selfdiscovery, is an old one in literature. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Search for library items search for lists search for.