Crackpot Palace: Stories - Brossura

Ford, Jeffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062122592 ISBN 13: 9780062122599

Casa editrice: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2012

Riassunto

Showcasing the talents of this Edgar Award-winning author, this collection of 20 short stories, written expressly for this book, reveals ancient Native American secrets, explores what happens when imagination and memory blur and delves into young love that is divided by more than just family differences. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Unusual and provocative...sometimes shocking, sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes humorous, this collection will please fans of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor. Recommended.” (School Library Journal on THE DROWNED LIFE)

“We should be grateful that alongside the firm of Updike, Cheever, Ford & Company there exists, in both fiction and film, an American tradition that depicts the suburbs as places of wonder rather than stultification, discovery rather than predictability.” (New York Newsday)

“Think Ray Bradbury’s Green Town stories, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Stephen King’s The Body (made into the film Stand by Me) and you get an idea of the tone of Ford’s latest fine work. Grade: A” (Rocky Mountain News)

“The trilogy [The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond] is simply brilliant and constitutes a modern masterwork of fantasy.” (Terri Windling, "Top Twenty Fantasy Novels of 2001" from Year's Best Fantasy & Horror vol. 15)

“The Shadow Year captures the totality of a lived period, its actualities and its dreams, its mundane essentials and its odd subjective imperatives; it is a work of episodic beauty and mercurial significance.” (Nick Gevers, Locus)

“Surreal, unsettling, and more than a little weird. Ford has a rare gift for evoking mood with just a few well-chosen words and for creating living, breathing characters with only a few lines of dialogue.” (Booklist)

“Spooky and hypnotic...Recommended for all public libraries.” (Library Journal)

“Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too. For those of you―and you know who you are―who think the indispensable element for good genre fiction is good writing, this is not to be missed.” (Kirkus Review, Starred)

“Jeffrey Ford’s latest triumph, THE SHADOW YEAR, is as haunting as it is humorous...readers will recognize real talent in Ford’s vivid, unerring voice.” (Louisville Courier Journal on THE SHADOW YEAR)

L'autore:

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, the Edgar Award–winning The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, and The Twilight Pariah, and his collections include The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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• Editore: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062122592
• ISBN 13: 9780062122599
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352