Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler

by Thomas Pynchon (Introduction), Jim Dodge (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.30

  Starting with his mother's 'roundhouse' right to a nun's jaw, Stone Junction is a modern odyssey of one man's quest for knowledge and understanding in a world where revenge, betrayal, revolution, mind-bending chemicals, magic and murder are the norm. With a genuinely awesome scope, a stiletto-sharp wit and an array of utterly bizarre characters, Jim Dodge has woven a mesmerising and age-defining tale. Like a river constantly changing direction, Stone Junction is both stomach-clutchingly hilarious and heart-rendingly sad - and utterly compelling throughout. Prepare to step into a world where nothing is ever as it seems.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.30

  When Daniel Pearse's mother dies, he is brought under the guidance of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and high-stake gamblers exist. It is also a place in which magic and murder are the norm. So Daniel begins a road-trip across America, an extraordinary quest for knowledge and understanding, for a six-pound spherical diamond and for an answer to the question of who killed his mother. Subtitled 'An Alchemical Pot-Boiler', Stone Junction is an unforgettable outlaw classic.

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $19.35

  Annalee Pearce is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been placed in a corrective centre run by nuns for refusing to co-operate with authorities. Once in there, she soon rebels, breaks a sister's jaw with a roundhouse right and, when her son Daniel is born, she steals away into the rain.