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Shades: The Whole Story of Dr. Tin
A mass murderer, a musician, a dominatrix, and a private eye gather around a game of Snakes and Ladders on New Year's Day. Lenore is waiting to murder, A.J. is waiting to die, Roxanne waits to usher in the end of the world. And all McGraw wants for Christmas is Doctor Tin. Some of them will die. Some of them have died before. Enter, if you will, the incendiary world of Doctor Tin―first introduced in the novel of the same name that won the first ever 3-Day Novel Contest in 1979, and included here in its entirety. You will never be the same again.
189 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1993
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December 24, 2013
"Shades: the Whole Story of Doctor Tin" by Tom Walmsley is a masterfully constructed book with a well-woven narrative. It is at times wry, witty & full of off-beat humour, insightful observations & satire. The characters are bizarre. The scenarios are surprising, violent and kinky. The sentences are as tightly constructed, could easily be poems unto themselves. I know analogies can be a hokey way to describe a work, but Shades could be a tango with its intricate structure, its romance, passion & intensity. By the end of the dance I felt breathless. If someone told me how this book is structured, I would say it couldn't be done successfully, but this author dares & does. It is the work of a craftsman.
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