The Enchanted

Blurb

Pub Date: 2014-03-04 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins A wondrous and redemptive debut novel. set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide. The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark. imaginative power of Stephen King. This is an enchanted place. Others do not see it. but I do. The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison. viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive. he senses what others can not. Though bars confine him every minute of every day. he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison. heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life.Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest...