Iron & Brass - Fain, Chris

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Résumé :
Ramona Stone is a retired boxer and cancer survivor barely getting by in a faded Rust-Belt town-until she unwittingly frees a jinni from a thrift-store teapot. Now her cat has the power of speech, an ultra-powerful being is bunking on her couch...and her snow-locked community is set to become a battleground between our reality and a magic netherworld beyond. For the shapeshifting cannibal ghul Ashera has vowed to pursue Izi al-Samoon from the frozen vales of urban West Virginia to the gates of Hell itself-or take Ramona's own weary soul in his place. Echoing the epic wainscot-fantasy traditions of Neil Gaiman and China Mi?ville and evoking the visceral horror of Clive Barker, Chris Fain's IRON & BRASS is a dark urban fable of unlikely heroes, unspeakable villains, and the lengths we go to for love and honor....

Biographie:
Chris Fain is a social geographer from West Virginia's southern coalfields. He has worked as a journalist and as a writer for genre TV webpages such as Project: Torchwood. A parent and grandparent, he currently teaches Geography at Mountwest Community and Technical College. He describes himself as 'coal camp queer'. He lives in Huntington, West Virginia, with two catkind housemates (The Doctor and Missy the Master), where he is working to improve the lives of the local LGBTQ+ community....

Sommaire:
Ramona Stone is a retired boxer and cancer survivor barely getting by in a faded Rust-Belt town-until she unwittingly frees a jinni from a thrift-store teapot. Now her cat has the power of speech, an ultra-powerful being is bunking on her couch...and her snow-locked community is set to become a battleground between our reality and a magic netherworld beyond. For the shapeshifting cannibal ghul Ashera has vowed to pursue Izi al-Samoon from the frozen vales of urban West Virginia to the gates of Hell itself-or take Ramona's own weary soul in his place. Echoing the epic wainscot-fantasy traditions of Neil Gaiman and China Mi?ville and evoking the visceral horror of Clive Barker, Chris Fain's IRON & BRASS is a dark urban fable of unlikely heroes, unspeakable villains, and the lengths we go to for love and honor....