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Hell at Cock's Crow
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804672
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 25 2023
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Lynda La Rocca, winner of the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest and author of Unbroken
Part a story of crime and justice, part seafaring yarn-complete mayhem-the five and a half dozen sonnets that make up Hell at Cock's Crow spin a tale worthy of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. The morally ambiguous pirate captain, James Raven, a ruthless rapist driven by greed but a would-be Robin Hood to the enslaved, and his even bigger-than-life consort, the New Christian Miranda Iglesias on one side, Kathleen Munro and her lover Billy Butcher, for a time wavering members of Raven's crew, on the other, the tension mounts, and nobody, really, comes out of it unblemished. The rhythm of the Shakespearian sonnets, ABBACDDCEFFEGG, mimics the rolling sea and carries the rollicking tale to its shore.
-Charles Rammelkamp, author of Ugler Lee
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