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By Robert J Wiersema ISBN: 9780679313755format: Hardback pages: 496 publisher: Random House of Canada pub. date: 2010-11-02 |
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Novelist Christopher Knox began his writing career with a bang. The echo of that success still rings in his ears as he sets to work every morning on his second novel, ten years later, increasingly estranged from his family. However, when he begins to read to his son from an obscure fantasy novel, To the Four Directions, his life takes a bizarre turn. One night, when young David is reading alone, an inexplicable seizure leaves him in a mysterious state of unconsciousness. As his seizure recurs every night, his father learns that only one thing will calm it; a bedtime story from his strange new book. Convinced that the secret of David's collapse is within its pages, Chris traverses the continent in search of the truth. Meanwhile, David wakes up within the story he has been reading, and as his father struggles to free him David struggles to survive, facing perils unimaginable in a world created to capture the hearts and souls of children like him. Both father and son are headed toward a fateful collision of worlds, and a showdown with ancient evils, both fictional and very real.
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