Michael Raship

What a wonderful novel! I wish I had had a book like this to read in high school or in my early college days. A good bit of the grit of the book seems to draw on the autobiographical because it captures so many fine-tuned details about the time and the settings which figure so prominently in the book. It also mirrors many of the concerns and struggles that I faced when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. The political aspect of those days seemed so inextricably bound up with the music that we listened to and that became a soundtrack for what we were all going through at the time. Kudos to Raship for a finely drawn portrait of a family and an era.… (mais)

This is a wonderful fantasy with excellent world building and is full of action. Our main character, Bartholomew, goes on a quest that explores the boundaries of reality. In the end, he gains self-knowledge and meets a motley assortment of folk who help him along his way. In a land chock full of saints who murder as a matter of course and witches that battle them, things are not always what they seem. “Memories of those days began to seep through cracks in the barrier between consciousness and subconsciousness.” Raship mines both sides of that barrier and delivers gold.… (mais)