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The Ballad of Pinewood Lake

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In this haunting and poignant story, a young writer brings his small family, his wife and their son, to the mountains where he hopes they can start a new life, high above the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles.

Johnny Paul hopes that he and his wife, Angela, can raise their young son Colin, in a peaceful environment where this is no crime, no strife.

Yet, in this idyllic setting, high in the San Bernardino Mountains overlooking a beautiful lake, Johnny begins to glimpse a darker world than he had envisioned.

Somewhere, out there on the lake, or in the darkness of his mind, tragedy lurks. And though he tries to avoid the danger, he is swept up in a series of events that lead him to question his sanity as the lake begins to take on new meaning and becomes an abyss.

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“Maybe you’ll think a little of Keats and a little of Lorca, but something else has come in, too. The song and dance of Jory Sherman.” —Charles Bukowski, on Sherman’s My Face in Wax

“Sherman’s portrayal of Johnnie and Angela is poignant, and Johnnie’s narration starkly reveals the pain and torture of alcoholism and doomed love.

Sherman’s characters and his powerful delivery grip the readers in an uncomfortable clinch until the final page.

Literally this is Sherman’s most ambitious novel to date.” —Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Jory Sherman wrote more than 400 books, many of them set in the American West, as well as poetry, articles, and essays. His best-known works may be the Spur Award-winning The Medicine Horn, first in the Buckskinner series, and Grass Kingdom, part of the Barons of Texas series. Sherman won the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature from the Western Writers of America. He died in 2014.

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Book Details

  • Forge Books
  • On Sale: 02-01-2001

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