92,508 parole (≈ circa 6 ore)
A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact.
A revised version of this book (also freely available on Feedbooks, as Beasts of New York 2.0) won a 2011 ForeWord Book Of The Year Award and has been published by the prestigious literary press The Porcupine's Quill.
To learn more, visit the book's web site: www.beastsofnewyork.com… (più)
Lingua: Inglese
Scritto in: 2007
Pubblicato: 2009-01-03
Numero di parole: 92,508 parole (≈ circa 6 ore)
Licenza: Attribution non commerciale e derivativa (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: urban fantasy, new york city, Central Park, fantasy, animals, quest
Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His novels have won Arthur Ellis and ForeWord Book Of The Year awards, translation into half a dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post.
Jon's journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Times Of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.
Jon has released four of his novels - Beasts of New York, Invisible Armies, The Night of Knives, and Swarm - under a Creative Commons license; all can be freely downloaded from Feedbooks.
Dom 20 Nov 2011, 03:46:37 +0100
A great read! Keeps you hooked and you can't put it down.
Gio 13 Ott 2011, 16:04:04 +0200
Amazing Author! I loved this book and can't wait to read more of his work. Beasts of New York is definitely action packed and had me hooked from the first chapter.