Glimpses

Lewis Shiner

Macmillan, Mar 12, 2001 - Fiction - 331 pages

Ray Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was.

When he finds the music he dreams of has been mysteriously recorded by his tape deck, Ray is drawn into the past, to revisit the histories of Hendrix, Morrison, and the Beatles...along with the history of Ray Shackleford.

Vividly re-creating a lost era that might have been, Glimpses fuses the hopes and dreams in the music with a powerful vision of reality.

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User Review  - Angela - Goodreads

It took me a while to warm up to this book. Once I did, though, I loved it. The novel takes place in about 1985. In 1985, I was a teenage female, not a middle-aged male like the protagonist. In many ...

Review: Glimpses

User Review  - Ernest - Goodreads

Really liked this book. It's the winner of 1994's World Fantasy Award for Best Novel but the subject is not your typical fantasy. The 'fantasy' element comes in with the main character's ability to ...

About the author

Lewis Shiner is the award-winning author of five novels, most recently Say Goodbye, The Laurie Moss Story. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Glimpses
• Author: Lewis Shiner
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2001
• ISBN: 0312267436, 9780312267438
• Length: 331 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General