A Small and Remarkable Life

By Nick Dichario format: trade paperback publication: March 2006 ISBN: 9780889953420

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This much-anticipated first novel by Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Nick DiChario puts a spin on the story of being stranded on an alien planet, cut off from one’s own people, unsuited to a new environment and physically different from everyone else. This is what the young alien Tink Puddah must face when his parents are killed on their first day on Earth in 1845 and Tink finds himself stranded in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. A story of courage, determination, hope, and survival, A Small and Remarkable Life chronicles the journey of two people headed in very different directions: the alien, Tink, a lonely outsider who finds the strength and resources within him to endure the most brutal and unforgiving conditions, and the holy man, Jacob Piersol, determined to save Tink’s soul but tortured by his past and the God who seems unable to console him. Charming, literate, and thought provoking, A Small and Remarkable Life is a wonderful debut novel from one of the science fiction’s best-loved short-story writers.

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