num_pages: 194
description: There will always be a Hammer and an Air...Graeme and Eirn have no words for what they are to each other. Children clinging together in a crowded orphanage; friends battling back to back in a school yard; and bedmates finally bridging the gap between sleeping next to a body and allowing it to touch you in the nightall of these roles are summed up by just their names: Hammer and Air.The innocent exploration of their newest roles is brutally marred when a violent ill-tempered master threatens Eirn and Eirn's Hammer kills the man in a fair fight. The two run off into the wide world with only each other for safety. It's difficult to forge a good life with only a blacksmith's hammer and a printer's cleverness but together Hammer and Eirn will learn to negotiate the dangers of magic and motion of sex obsession and tenderness and of the word that can make sense of it allone word they must earn for themselves.
language: English
title: Hammer & Air
publisher: Dreamspinner Press