The Fissure King, Rachel Pollack
The Fissure King, Rachel Pollack
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The Fissure King
A Novel in Five Stories

Author: Rachel Pollack

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 12 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2017

Synopsis

In the classic noir tradition of Have Gun—Will Travel, Rachel Pollack—one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Tarot—gives us the tale of Jack Shade, an occult shaman for hire.Jack Shade has a secret, and this hidden part of his past sends him on a journey through time and space and a great number of metaphysical doorways. From the cozy poker table in the eleventh-floor apartment of the Hôtel de Rêve Noire to the ethereal Forest of Souls to the faded houses along the Gold River, Jack flows in and out of this world. Even when his own duplicate hires him to kill himself, Jack is mercury in motion. Jack the Nimble, Jack the Quick.The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories collects the four existing Jack Shades novellas and shows us Jack’s final trick—one last story that finally reveals Jack’s true nature. Only Rachel Pollack, one of the world’s greatest authorities of Tarot and an award-winning novelist and comic book writer, could dream of someone as mischievous and mythopoeic as Jack Shade. The king is dead. Long live the king.

About Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) was an award-winning fiction writer and author of numerous books on the Tarot. She was considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She was a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and taught at the famed Omega Institute for fifteen years.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claudia on August 23, 2018

Frustrating read. Started out very atmospheric and intriguing, with Jack as a cool dude. It's a novel in 5 stories, supposedly. But no real effort was made to integrate the stories. That is, with each new story, Jack's dilemma, the rules of the magic, and the other characters are introduced again. S......more

Goodreads review by Pop on February 14, 2018

"Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?..." Jack Shade is an occult Traveler, a sort of magical private detective/operative/shaman who can travel back and forth between worlds and deal with oracles, Powers, mages, elementals, demi-Gods, demons, and the like. In an amusing and apt nod to "Have Gun, Will......more

Goodreads review by Esme on April 17, 2021

This is another chance I took through Amazon Plus on audible, it’s a collection of novellas that’s been combined into a novel. Does it feel like five novellas crammed into one novel? Yes. But, that’s not necessarily a bad thing if you know that going into it and are prepared to essentially read a bu......more

Goodreads review by Matilda on April 06, 2023

Almost as soon as I started reading this, I wanted to be reading something else. (Yes, I know that I could have been reading something else, but let me tell you, there are like 4 books I have not finished. Ever.) I picked this up, because Neil Gaiman posted a touching tribute to her and because the......more

Goodreads review by ThymeOperator on December 19, 2024

There was so much about this that was fantastic. I just found it very difficult to sink into it / latch onto anything. It felt like every other paragraph, a huge, new piece of information was dropped in. There were lengthy explanations of things mid-conversation. You can't guess the solutions to the......more

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