The Earthquake Man

By William L. Heath

When a troll, a throwback to prehistoric times, gives the O'Grady family a lot of misery, a peculiar man appears and vows to rid the family of the troll. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825300088
• ISBN13: 9780825300080
• Release Date: December 1980
• Publisher: Beaufort Books
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Believable world+Imagination

This book, I read in a little middle school library ten years ago. I still remember it to this day as being one of the most strikingly original peices of fantasy fiction I've ever read. The setting seems to be an early 20th century England or Ireland, a land were things of myth have not died out with the ascendence of new technology. It is a story of two brothers who, after finding a troll living in their apple orchard, are confronted by a traveling stranger calling himself the Earthquake Man. He has come to capture the subterranean-dwelling troll in order to help prevent an immenent earthquake of a magnitude that the world has never known. The plot twists like a beheaded snake, wrapping you up in its entertaining prose. It connects on multiple levels, the issues of brotherhood, faith, courage, and the classic Science vs Nature's Will. A true read, a sweet apple in the dusty barrel of obscurity. Put this book back in print!!