Shaman Winter - Hardcover

Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446523747 ISBN 13: 9780446523745

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Wheelchair-bound after a brutal battle with his archenemy Raven, Sonny's days have been spent in slow recovery while his nights have been tormented by strange dreams...
The world of spirits is the world of dreams, says Sonny's mentor, Don Eliseo. A wise elder and keeper of the past, he reveals that Owl Woman was Sonny's ancestor, and that the man who carried her off was none other than Raven, the Bringer of Curses. Raven has entered Sonny's dreams with one murderous agenda: to capture his soul by destroying his history.
Thus the nightmares rage on. One by one, in dream after dream.. century after century...Sonny's ancestors disappear. And in order to fight Raven, he must be initiated into the realm of the spirit.
In his waking life Sonny is hired to find the mayor's daughter - kidnapped the night she stars in a Christmas pageant. To his horror he discovers four black feathers on the vanished teen's pillow - the mark of Raven. Before long, another girl disappears. But what is the connection between the vanishing girls and the women in Sonny's dreams?
A series of devastating revelations soon leads Sonny to uncover a plot by Raven that could bring down the city...the nation...and the world.

About this title

About the Author

Rudolfo Anaya is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews

Can Raven, Bringer of Curses, whose battle cry is ``Chaos forever,''outfight small-town p.i. Sonny Baca? In your dreams. Which is where most of the action in this weird blend of crime and fantasy fiction takes place. The thing is, Raven (Amaya's devil figure) and Sonny (his angel) have wrestled before (Rio Grande Fall, 1996, etc.), with the devil taking the hindmost. But this time, Raven feels sure he has the edge: he knows how to get into Sonny's dreamsand Sonny isn't savvy enough yet to invade his. That's important, because it means Raven can wipe out Sonny's female forebears, starting with Owl Woman, daughter of a shaman, who lived circa 1598. The strategic point here is that by canceling their existence, he fixes it so that Sonny was never born! In between dream battle-scenes (in which the likes of Billy the Kid and Pancho Villa sometimes take a hand), Raven and Sonny have waking confrontations. Sonny, still wheelchair-bound as the result of Ravens malevolence in a previous novel, is often bested here. But he's recovering his health. And with the help of wise old Don Eliseo, his mentor, he's sharpening up his dream-crashing techniques, so that he can meet Raven on equal terms and knock the feathers off him. With Sonny Baca we're light-years from the wisecracking, hard-boiled, noir-drenched p.i.s who walked the mean streets when the genre was young. Sam Spade may be turning over in his dreams. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Continuing the classic Bless Me, Ultima: Sonny Baca battles his nemesis, Raven.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446523747
• ISBN 13: 9780446523745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374