Minions of the Moon
Richard Bowes
Kevin Grierson has a Shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamour of advertising to the dark glamour of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson's Shadow keeps him walking the edge of destruction and madness. Then a simple robbery goes horribly wrong. With the help of a flawed saint named Leo Dunn, Grierson struggles to banish his Shadow, and succeeds. Temporarily. Years later, sober and settled, at peace with his world, Kevin Grierson meets his Shadow again. And this time it won't go away. This new edition includes a brand-new Grierson story.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Fantasy/Horror/Science Fiction!
Paperback, 270 pages
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''A terrific piece of storytelling, which reminded me...both of Stephen King and of Jonathan Carroll, spooky, strange, and unsettling.'' - Neil Gaiman
"As a child growing up in Boston in the 1950s, Kevin Grierson discovers that he possesses an alternate self?a cold, callous Shadow-being who deals with the harsh realities and dangers of life and, more often than not, seems to leave chaos and trouble in his wake. Bowes's first novel, a reworking of a decade's worth of short stories, describes the sometimes poignant, sometimes disturbing life of a man who dwells on the edge of reality. Kevin's struggle to come to terms with his lover's slow death from AIDS and to find a way to reconcile himself with his doppelganger take on the mythic overtones of a modern-day fable in this solid piece of magic realism suitable for large libraries." - Library Journal "Bowes deftly uses the addiction-as-doppelganger metaphor to add tension and verve to a rich, riveting story of dereliction and recovery. Superb popular fiction." - Booklist |
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