Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) was one of the most popular and prolific English authors of his time, best known for his historical fiction and novels for boys. But it was in the field of the macabre and supernatural that Walpole was at his best, and this collection of sixteen tales contains many of his fi
Night Soil
โ Scribed by Dale Peck
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"You'd think it has been done before but it really hasn't --the perfectly crafted, haunting and heartbreaking, raw, funny, unblinking yet merciful art novel."-- Marlon James**
Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and legacies of racism and environmental destruction collide in the new novel from Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck.**
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** The art world falls in love with Dixie Stammers when it is discovered that not only are her pots mechanically perfect spheres, they are also identical, despite the fact that they are made entirely by hand, without benefit of a wheel, measuring device, or any other tool.
Her teenage son, Judas, is pathologically shy, and retreats into a world of anonymous sexual encounters at a roadside rest area. What he really longs for though is a relationship with one of the boys at the private school he attends. The Academy was founded by Judas's ancestral grandfather, a nineteenth-century coal magnate....
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