false 223437 2 From the moment he first looks down upon the ancient gray head of Noah, who is swinging his stone ax and speaking to the heavens, the narrating crow in this unique and remarkable epic knows that these creatures called Man are trouble. He senses, too, that the natural order of things is about to change. There is too much death and too much magic in the Songscape for the world to remain as it is for much longer. The people who come to plead with Noah are all angry or frightened. And why would this lanky old man-beast build this oddly shaped home—this “ark”—so far from the waters if something earth-changing were not coming? At a time when many of us are searching for meaning, Layne Maheu's extraordinary debut novel asks us to linger in a masterfully rendered ancient world just long enough to ponder the unsettled state of things. Through a truly poetic sense of language, he has created a lyrical meditation on the relationship between humanity and the heavens. Song of the Crow is a provocative portrait of the reasons for human fear and of the role that free will always plays when we struggle, not just to make sense of things, but to endure. Recalling both the magical imagination of Richard Adams's Watership Down and the spiritual richness of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, Layne Maheu's Song of the Crow is a soaring debut. 216390 2006 Song of the Crow total:28|5:8|4:4|3:7|2:8|1:1| 28 94 43 7 2 0 false false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 17:26:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 14 16:51:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 07:23:36 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 11:14:32 -0700 2009
Song of the Crow by Layne Maheu is an absolutely poetic and masterfully crafted novel. Song of the Crow retells the biblical story of Noah’s Ark through the eyes of a crow. Now seriously, I loved this book so much I’ve read it two and a half times! How so? Each...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 04 08:18:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:19:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 01 11:16:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:18:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:48:05 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 18:49:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 08 14:01:59 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 09 09:52:45 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 08 14:01:59 -0700 2009
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