To Kill a Common Loon [Paperback]

Mitch Luckett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2001

To Kill a Common Loon is part murder mystery, part contemporary fantasy, part eco-fable, and all fun. Harp P. Gravey, a down-and-out sometime-banjo picker, just wants to fulfill a deathbed promise to a friend and scatter his ashes in the wilderness. He never bargained on shape-shifting dragons, Indian Princesses, hat-loving cougars, and a villain who will stop at nothing to steal his friend's land.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Anyone with a taste for bizarre fiction will find plenty to feast on in these pages." -- Portland Tribune, December 4, 2001

"Mitch Luckett writes with rare humanity and a quirky, disheveled grace. This is a marvelous, quixotic, funny book." Geri Doran -- Writers NW, winter 2001

About the Author

Mitch Luckett is an avid birder and claims to at least partially understand the "language of the birds."

Mitch has been a free-lance writer for twenty-five years with dozens of articles and several short stories publishd in regional magazines and newspapers. For over a decade he's written a monthyly Naturalist column for the Audubon Society of Portland, Oregon.

Mitch combines two art forms, music and storytelling, into humorous and sometimes poignant stage performances. Whether Ozark Mountain tall tales, narrative songs, Olympic Mountain parables, Native American myths or a book-length yarn, Mitch has a gift for the ancient art of storytelling.

Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: Media Weavers Llc; 1St Edition edition (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964721244
• ISBN-13: 978-0964721241
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,979,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Pac NW special, February 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: To Kill a Common Loon (Paperback)

If you like Carl Hiaasen books, you'll probably like "To Kill a Common Loon", though this book has a style of its own. The beauty and specialness of the Pacific Northwest Olympic peninsula is engrained in the story and the story line is good. It is a book that is hard to put down. It is the author's first novel - I hope it is not long before he writes another!