Gateways
By: F. Paul Wilson
Edition: Mass-market ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780765346056
Subjects: Retirement communities; Coma; Patients; Repairman Jack (Fictitious character); Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: "In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this is his dad, so he heads south. In the hospital he meets Anya, one of his father's neighbors. She's a weird old duck who seems to know an awful lot about his father, and even a lot about Jack." "Jack's arrival does not go unnoticed. A young woman named Semelee, who has strange talents and lives in an isolated area of the Everglades with a group of misshapen men, feels his presence. She senses that he's "special," like her." "Anya takes Jack back to Dad's senior community, Gateways South, which borders on the Everglades. Florida is going through an unusual drought. There's a ban on watering; everything is brown and wilting, but Anya's lawn is a deep green."