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Emily Winfield Martin: IMG Kids' Q&A: Emily Winfield Martin

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Describe your new book. Oddfellow's Orphanage is a series of stories/vignettes that tell the tale of the newest arrival to a curious orphanage, a... Continue »
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    Oddfellow's Orphanage

    Emily Winfield Martin 9780375869952
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"These tales sparkle with dark details earned during a lifetime spent scrambling in the girders, dodging the authorities, looking down on the cities of the world from an eagle's perch." Don Herron, Author, Willeford

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"What's written here could only be written by one who's broken the locks and ascended the girders. This is a trespasser's diary, but also a biography of living bridges and their inevitably metaphysical narratives, connecting fragile psychological shorelines, crass commuter kingdoms, boyhood adventures, and islands of fog-swirled San Francisco Victoriana. Imagine Joseph Conrad grown up around bridges instead of boats, Lovecraft getting out of the house more, Philip K. Dick ignoring 'No-Entry' signs in the manliest of ways." Al Ridenour, The Art of Bleeding
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John Law was raised in the Midwest and dreamed about bridges from a very young age. He attended the first Suicide Club initiation a year after his arrival in San Francisco in 1976 and through his apprenticeship in that saturnalian cabal came to know many of the world's greatest bridge spans. It is his great good fortune to be affiliated with singular organizations such as Survival Research Labs, Dark Passage, Laughing Squid, the Cacophony Society, PeopleHater, Seemen, Circus Redickuless, S.F. Cyclecide, and The Madagascar Institute to name a few. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys a good cigar.
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kunger, April 2, 2009 (view all comments by kunger)
This collection of short stories will leave you wishing there were more. Author John Law knows how to surprise and entertain, writing about subjects not often used as grist for more prosaic tales. Shifting from descriptive narrative to fantasy and back with aplomb the author takes us into places physical and mental that we are unlikely go in our day to day lives.
Whether you are fascinated by the urban landscape or prefer to sit under a tree in the country we are all affected by the structures of civilization even though we often take them for granted. With obvious real life experience and more than a little humor some of these human/thing relationships are explored here.

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"Review" by , "These tales sparkle with dark details earned during a lifetime spent scrambling in the girders, dodging the authorities, looking down on the cities of the world from an eagle's perch."
"Review" by , "What's written here could only be written by one who's broken the locks and ascended the girders. This is a trespasser's diary, but also a biography of living bridges and their inevitably metaphysical narratives, connecting fragile psychological shorelines, crass commuter kingdoms, boyhood adventures, and islands of fog-swirled San Francisco Victoriana. Imagine Joseph Conrad grown up around bridges instead of boats, Lovecraft getting out of the house more, Philip K. Dick ignoring 'No-Entry' signs in the manliest of ways."
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