{"product_id":"providence-blue-a-fantasy-quest-paperback","title":"Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Pinault\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt his typewriter in little Cross Plains, Texas, Robert E. Howard created big characters--Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, Conan the Barbarian--who shaped the art of fantasy fiction for generations. But Howard would never know it. On June 11, 1936, at the age of thirty, he shot himself outside his country home. Why would he do it, and where could death have taken him?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Blue\u003c\/i\u003e imagines the strange underworld journey of Howard after his suicide, through Texas flatlands, ancient Egyptian ruins, and New England city gutters. Meanwhile, as his girlfriend Novalyne Price investigates what caused the tragedy, she is led to Providence, Rhode Island, home of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, where she makes a terrifying, life-changing discovery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Providence decades later, aging grad student Joseph Bonaventure struggles to finish his dissertation on Lovecraft. When he and a young librarian, Fay O''Connell, chance upon some of the author''s lost papers, this breakthrough locks both of them in a web of black magic, occult conspiracy, and dark cosmic forces--and ties them intimately to the fate of Robert E. Howard. Alongside a cast of Providence characters, including a local priest and a stray Chihuahua, Joseph and Fay join a supernatural quest for good against evil, heaven against hell, the Lamb of God against the horrors of oblivion.\u003cp\u003eWritten in a lean, direct style, with a native''s sense of Rhode Island''s geography and culture, David Pinault''s \u003ci\u003eProvidence Blue\u003c\/i\u003e pushes the fantasy novel into new terrain, bringing the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft into contact with the startling reality of Christian doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Pinault, Ph.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, is a Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. He is the author of the acclaimed work \u003ci\u003eThe Crucifix on Mecca''s Front Porch\u003c\/i\u003e. His other publications include \u003ci\u003eNotes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eMuseum of Seraphs in Torment\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 449\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 8.9 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252239745273,"sku":"9781621644897","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dVZlNjRZbERocFlXSlBzVyttbC9XUT09.webp?v=1768684782","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/providence-blue-a-fantasy-quest-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}