New books to report, as always four. He returns as a well-known author with a novel full of action and horror. So let's move on to another well-known writer, but this time from the fantasy world. The third book is English and this too is by a famous author who has written numerous humorous and satirical novels. Finally a writer from our country, with a book containing two novels, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale Dark waterSue Ellen always knew that May Lynn dreamed of becoming a movie star.
When she finds her drowned in the Sabine River, with her feet tied to a sewing machine, she decides with her friends Terry and Jinx to burn her body and take the ashes to Hollywood. A dream perhaps unachievable, but which becomes reality when Sue Ellen and her friends - a white boy who everyone suspects of homosexuality and a black girl with a too-long tongue - discover a Special Data map in May Lynn's diary that leads them to dig up quite a bit of money, more than enough to pay for the trip to the Mecca of cinema, but also to attract the attention of many people. Thus begins for the three boys a breakneck escape to the Texas of the 1930s, so dear to Joe Lansdale.
While on their trail, alongside greedy relatives and corrupt law enforcement, stands the shadow of Skunk, a ruthless killer who lives in the woods and cuts off the hands of his victims, shrouded in legend yet dangerously real. Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale Einaudi 344 pages 2012 Wards of Faerie: The Dark Legacy of Shannara by Terry Brooks Wards of FaerieSeven years after the conclusion of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, Terry Brooks returns to write about his most famous saga. When the world was young and its name was Faerie, the power of magic reigned and the Elfstones protected the Elves and their lands, keeping evil away. But when an Elven girl fell in love with a boy from the Void, he took away more than just her heart.