Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"In his first novel in 10 years, Bowes has produced a well-written and unusually gritty urban fantasy of a sort likely to appeal to fans of the work of Charles de Lint....[Grierson] is a fascinating character whose life consists of a series of small, grim and involving urban adventures." Publishers Weekly
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"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." Ray Olson, Booklist
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"As in James Carroll's dark-fantasy fiction, the insubstantial acquires weight and danger here....More promising than successful, with its many thinly dramatized characters all but demanding a scorecard to be kept straight." Kirkus Reviews
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"[Kevin's struggles] take on the mythic overtones of a modern-day fable in this solid piece of magic realism..." Library Journal
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"This is powerful fiction....For the elegance of the prose, the depth of the characterization, the sheer bravado and poignant grace of the story itself, Bowes stands...in a class of his own." Charles de Lint, author of The Onion Girl
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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, author of Coraline and American Gods
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"Gripping, hard-hitting, magical, and utterly unique, Minions of the Moon is one of the very best books I have read in years." Terry Windling, co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series
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"Richard Bowes is one of the finest contemporary American fiction writers, in or out of the SF genre." William Sanders
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
A powerful and touching novel about being young, gay, and vulnerable in the 1960s; of living the fast life in the 1970s; and the battle of Good and Evil for a man's soul.