Salvage and Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Explores a dark area we talk about only to ourselves
Published by Anthony Passaniti , 2 years ago
Powers brilliantly explores the area of our life that we prefer to keep in the dark, or only bring out when all of our life is dark. The fear and knowledge that there is more to this life than we may prefer. The fear that wrong will not be ignored, and that a price must be paid for the harm we do. Powers explorers are desire to escape that price, and our innate awareness that the only way to escape is to have never existed to begin with.
A brilliant and enjoyable work of art.
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