
Stone junction
an alchemical potboiler
Edición de la obra Stone junction
| Autor | Jim Dodge |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Grove Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 355 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780802135858 |
| ISBN-10 | 0802135854 |
| OCLC | 40402228 |
| LCCN | 89035587 |
| Número de Cutter | D644s |
Stone Junction is a novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO - Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. An assortment of sages sharpen Daniel's wide-eyed outlook until he has the concentration of a card shark Zen master, via apprenticeships in meditation, safecracking, poker, and the art of walking through walls. This unconventional education sets Daniel on the trail of a strange, six-pound diamond sphere, held by the U.S. government in a New Mexico vault, rumored to be the Philosopher's Stone or the Holy Grail. Shadowing the slippery netherworlds of role-playing games like Magic or Dungeons & Dragons, Daniel's quest to retrieve the magic stone and discover who killed his mother becomes a bravura act of storytelling, both a free-spirited adventure and a parable about the powers within us all.