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Lädt ... Reservoir Godsvon Brian Knight
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Dworshak isn¿t a lake in the classical sense of the word, but a reservoir; a portion of the once narrow northern fork of the Clearwater River, dammed up to generate power and prevent the yearly spring floods that once plagued the town of Orofino. If half the rumors about Dworshak were true, it would surely be haunted. Stories about a small trade town, its buildings deserted but still intact, buried under hundreds of feet of dark water. Stories of the bodies of workers, accident victims some, murder victims others, entombed forever in the concrete of the dam. Stories of Indian burial grounds desecrated and angry Indian spirits waiting to pull down any unwary white man who swims too deep. Most of all, stories of big fish. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The dammed river created the reservoir that powers the town of Orofino while flooding a previously abandoned town and leaving behind tales of desecrated Indian burial grounds. Amid this stew of history, legend and hearsay, Knight brings us a “Big Fish” tale.
Remember the one that got away? Reservoir Gods is one of those stories.
The story centers on the lives of various individuals around Dworshak. There is Commissioner Grant Lang, who enjoys the outdoors, camping with his underlings, and the occasional 14-year-old girl. He’s also a bit of a sociopath. There’s the Garbage Man, tasked with getting rid of the town’s more unseemly problems. There’s Roger Burnham, scuba-diving the reservoir’s murky depths as something of an amateur local historian. He wants to prove that there was a town beneath the waters. Add an elderly gentleman, a former drug dealer who chummed around with the local militia, and a pontoon boat dubbed the Great Pumpkin, and you have the set-up for a stupendous tale of monstrous marine life.
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