The Nightingale's Stone
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0990978311 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author David Mecklenburg was born in Sacramento, CA. He lives and works in Seattle. At the age of 22 he moved home to Seattle, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Influenced by the work of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen and Louise Erdrich (among others) David Mecklenburg writes Modernist fabulist fiction. Since then he has worked as a computer instructor, dishwasher, facilities manager, business rep, contract administrator, chef and currently as a capital project manager
With twenty-one illustrations by the author, The Nightingale's Stone is the first novel set in the world of the Hagengard, a place where reality is a plural endeavor by its inhabitants. “Poetic and philosophical, The Nightingale’s Stone draws us into an unreal but true place and time, where questions of being, both metaphorical and physiological, are riddled by miners, monsters, and scribes. Ada Ludenow returns to the Harz Mountains of Germany where thirteen years earlier she experienced a love affair that threw her into the uncertainty of life. Mecklenburg’s territory—the Free and Hanseatic City of Hagen; the northern unyielding mountain mining town, Visingotha; and beyond—draws its borders across rivers
munchkindance said Strange and Beautiful. An unconventional novel with an unconventional heroine, sensual and engrossing, set in an alternate-history Northern Europe where Christianity never supplanted paganism and strange creatures dwell. The framing story is the dialectic between an aging scribe and a mounta. First Novel, Great Read Yes, the Nightingale’s Stone exceeded my expectations. Being a first novel for David Mecklenburg, I wasn’t sure what to expect. His previous publications of short stories and poetry assured me the work would be quality reading and the whole tone of the book. Great Book Iacomus You are plunged into 17th Century Germany where a woman is about to be eaten by a shape-shifting creature… But this curious creature likes to know more about his meals before he eats them, besides, he must stimulate his appetite. So the woman delays her consumpt
. He lives and works in Seattle. Since then he has worked as a computer instructor, dishwasher, facilities manager, business rep, contract administrator, chef and currently as a capital project manager. At the age of 22 he moved home to Seattle, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. David Mecklenburg was born in Sacramento, CA. I