Yarilo's Dance Sim Shattuck

An indigent mental patient, Tom finds himself in a realistic fantasy world of pagan Russia, about 850 AD. This fantasy, resulting from Tom's catatonia, concerns the life and destruction of the village of Razryv-trava, and Tom's desire to retrieve and save the inhabitants of the town who survive. Type- characters from Slavic folklore enhance the story: vampires, volatile elflike creatures, and a cruel nobleman who abducts a beloved wife of the village's leader. However, as Tom has his adventures, his psychiatrist Andrew Schalberg tries to medicate Tom back to reality, something Tom resists because he wants to see what will happen in the Russian past. Tom then convinces Andy to stop medicating him so that Tom can complete his "mission." While treating Tom, Andy goes through a divorce from his wife and the anger of his two children. He has an affair with Judy, a woman with a control-freak husband. Andy feels out of control, trying to pull his life together and ironically comparing it with his patient's heroic efforts in his Russian dream world. more here

Sim Shattuck
Genre: Thriller/Fantasy
Pages: ---
Pub Date: November, 2010
ISBN No#:9780978612061