The Physiognomy - Brossura

Ford, Jeffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1930846533 ISBN 13: 9781930846531

Casa editrice: Golden Gryphon Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Offering a freshly-imagined world of bizarre creatures and strange customs, this unique and sardonic allegory explores the power and price of science and the ambiguity of morality. Humorless and drug addicted, physiognomist Cley is ordered by the Master of the Well-Built City to investigate a theft in a remote mining town. Well-versed in serving justice, arrogant Cley sets out to determine the identity of the thief using the pseudo-science of judging people by their features, but becomes distracted from his task by a beautiful girl from town. When the young-but-wise woman rejects him, he looses faith in his abilities, and in a drug-induced frenzy he ?remakes” her features. The subsequent horror of what he has done, what he represents, and the shallow life he leads forces him to seek atonement and true justice, risking the Master’s wrath, which may entail death by head explosion.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jeffrey Ford is a writing teacher at Brookdale Community College and the author of The Empire of Ice Cream, The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Girl in the Glass, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuqu, and Vanitas. He is the winner of a Nebula Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He lives in Medford Lakes, New Jersey.

Product Description:

Book by Ford Jeffrey

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Golden Gryphon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1930846533
• ISBN 13: 9781930846531
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193