The Year of the Crow eBook Barbara Stoner Thom Marrion
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SYBIL SUMMER, 75, can still fly, which is lucky because it’s the only way she, her son TEDDY, grandson BRIAN, and her crippled friend SEBASTIAN are going to escape the Homelanders. The year is 2030. Frightened by a series of terrorist attacks, most Americans hide within walled communities, depending on an expanded Department of Homeland Security for safety. Now the “Homelanders” want Teddy for murder, and probably treason as well.
The narrative switches between 2030 and 1978, as Sybil remembers or retells the events of that earlier summer, a journey to a Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks, and tragedy on a mountainside in Colorado.
The Year of the Crow eBook Barbara Stoner Thom Marrion
The Year of the CrowThe Year of the Crow is a fully realized essence of what life could become in a world where Homeland Security has run amuck. Society has lost its vision and become a repressive contrast to the freewheeling life style of the characters as we see them in flashbacks of the past. The youth have become timid yes-men in contrast to their elders who still have a full grasp on the bliss of life before the repressive state took over the visualization of a better future.
The author carries us back to the days of Dead shows and return to the land lifestyles bringing back those times with vivid force in all their complexity and directional ambiguity. Barbara Stoner's keen vision of the surrounding landscapes and entirely developed and sometimes fatally flawed characters of the players in her novel engages and enthralls the reader. I was compelled by the author's skill to give her willing suspension of disbelief as events involving the crows that tie the past and future together unfold. She deals with the failings as well as the triumphs of the characters who stride through the landscape of the past in this novel, entangled through their involvements to a stunning climax in the past and uplifting conclusion in the future.
I give this novel 5 stars because it is difficult to put down and immerses you in times past and future with equal clarity and complexity.
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The Year of the Crow eBook Barbara Stoner Thom Marrion Reviews
The Year of the Crow is a really nice read, I must say. I don't know exactly how to describe what sort of book it is, but it was enjoyable. The best description I can come up with is that it's a genre bending psychedelic mystery, set against a backdrop of religious intolerance, fear, love and magic. The story is clearly a labor of love, that follows a well-researched cast of 70's counter-culture characters from a summer in the mid-70's to a dystopian near-future. It is easy to imagine that the people in the book would talk and behave as they are depicted. I don't know what Barbara is baking for her next book, but I'm in!
I read it in 2 days. Handed it off to friends, they read it, it went to another pair of eyes and finally found it's way back to me.
I am now reading this book again.
The pace is great, the plot follows a clear line and the characters of the heroes and antagonists are well fleshed out and believable.
In a dystopian near future, religious conservative factions have won domination of American politics and have driven the American people to wall themselves off from a wild and undisciplined, non conformist outside world. Our flawed heroes are thrust from the unwelcome security of the soon to be condemned city
home to which they have retreated, directly into the face of the state security apparatus to confront an evil who's seed was sewn into the fabric of their lives long, long ago. The journey they undertake is as much about the courage they must call upon to face down the threat from state security as it is
about the even greater courage and humility it takes to face the very human frailties that sewed those seeds of evil so long ago.
Along the way we are treated to both great joy and deep sorrow, loss and redemption and the indelible marks they leave on our souls. These are utilized
with love and care by the author to craft for us a great story of triumph rising from the ashes of tragedy.
If you enjoy fiction as a vehicle of the study of human nature, then this book is for you.
I think this is an excellent first novel. What strikes me is just how delightfully readable it is, a great story, but then there just seem to be layers and layers of philosophy, social comment, mythology, whatever you'd like to look for.
Also the dialogue is brilliant, and there is so much. I enjoyed how the characters develop through their own words. Well worth 5 bucks!
Caveat Written by a friend
The beginning of this book is a little confusing and I suspect will cause more than a few folks to never finish, but I highly recommend giving it a try, the characters are believable and soon feel like people you have known in your life. The story is a entrancing and twists and turns, never too outlandish.
An enjoyable read from the past with an unsettling similarity to the future. The characters will draw you in as if you had stepped back in time. As for the crows...I will never look at them the same way again...thank you Barbara..a wonderful read!
I recommend it to everyone. Barbara Stoner grabs your imagination and takes you on an exciting journey.
This book is readable and engrossing. It is most definitely for mature readers. It combines elements of modern fantasy, psychological thriller, psychedelic revelation, a realistically evocative visit to a Grateful Dead Concert, love, hate, life, death and Crows! (Not to mention supernatural time travel.)
The Year of the Crow
The Year of the Crow is a fully realized essence of what life could become in a world where Homeland Security has run amuck. Society has lost its vision and become a repressive contrast to the freewheeling life style of the characters as we see them in flashbacks of the past. The youth have become timid yes-men in contrast to their elders who still have a full grasp on the bliss of life before the repressive state took over the visualization of a better future.
The author carries us back to the days of Dead shows and return to the land lifestyles bringing back those times with vivid force in all their complexity and directional ambiguity. Barbara Stoner's keen vision of the surrounding landscapes and entirely developed and sometimes fatally flawed characters of the players in her novel engages and enthralls the reader. I was compelled by the author's skill to give her willing suspension of disbelief as events involving the crows that tie the past and future together unfold. She deals with the failings as well as the triumphs of the characters who stride through the landscape of the past in this novel, entangled through their involvements to a stunning climax in the past and uplifting conclusion in the future.
I give this novel 5 stars because it is difficult to put down and immerses you in times past and future with equal clarity and complexity.
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