Fragments - Barham, Nathan

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Résumé :
Nathan spends most of his working days with the students of Genesee Junior-Senior High School in Genesee, Idaho. Whether it's essay structure, a classic literary work, an invisible ball of energy and deep breathing on stage, or the occasional impromptu dance routine, he strives to keep students interested in the fun and the fundamentals of the English language. When he's not teaching, he wears a number of hats, though the one that says Dad is the most careworn and cherished (it says Husband on the back). It hangs on a hook in a house where music is a constant and all the computers say Apple somewhere on their *aluminium* facades. From time to time it is said that he ventures into the mysterious realm called *outside*, though the occasion is rare and almost exclusively upon request by son or daughter....

Biographie:
Nathan spends most of his working days with the students of Genesee Junior-Senior High School in Genesee, Idaho. Whether it's essay structure, a classic literary work, an invisible ball of energy and deep breathing on stage, or the occasional impromptu dance routine, he strives to keep students interested in the fun and the fundamentals of the English language. When he's not teaching, he wears a number of hats, though the one that says Dad is the most careworn and cherished (it says Husband on the back). It hangs on a hook in a house where music is a constant and all the computers say Apple somewhere on their *aluminium* facades. From time to time it is said that he ventures into the mysterious realm called *outside*, though the occasion is rare and almost exclusively upon request by son or daughter....

Sommaire:
their weapons are black and crude and cold. They strike in the night, allies to the darkness. It is to them Askon marches, his men a bulwark against the threat. For there is no magic in Vladvir. What Askon finds when he arrives seems impossible: smoke and fire, death and defeat, and all around a suffocating sense of dread. The Norill seek something they call Stone of Mountain, but in the half-remembered stories from Askon's childhood, it was always Alora's Tear, a gem with powers great and terrible. A gem that cannot exist. Unless there is magic in Vladvir......