{"product_id":"my-brothers-keeper-paperback-2","title":"My Brother's Keeper - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eË\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in \u003c\/i\u003eWuthering Heights\u003ci\u003e. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But Emily's father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago--and it is taking possession of Emily's beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. Curzon must regard Emily's family as a dire threat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In spite of being at deadly odds, Emily and Curzon find themselves thrown together in fighting werewolves, confronting pagan gods, even saving each other from the lures of moorland demons. And in a final battle that sweeps from the haunted village of Haworth to a monstrous shrine far out on the moors, the two of them must be reluctant allies against an ancient power that seems likely to take their souls as well as their lives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Powers \u003c\/b\u003ewon the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eLast Call \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDeclare. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeclare\u003c\/i\u003e also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel \u003ci\u003eOn Stranger Tides\u003c\/i\u003e inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment \u003ci\u003ePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. \u003c\/i\u003eHis book \u003ci\u003eThe Anubis Gates \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Philip K. Dick Award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the steampunk genre. Powers won the Dick Award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel \u003ci\u003eDinner at Deviant's Palace. \u003c\/i\u003eMany of his novels, such as \u003ci\u003eLast Call \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAlternate Routes, \u003c\/i\u003e are so-called \"secret histories,\" which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the the story in weird and compelling manners. Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton, where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims \"Stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writer's actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer's conscious assistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconscious worry about my themes.\" Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752913830176,"sku":"9781982193706","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7a77413acef5c6656f2552665b1ff839.webp?v=1780007340","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-brothers-keeper-paperback-2","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}