Jeff Vandermeer
Shriek
An Afterword
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THE SCANDALOUS AND HEARTBREAKING SECRET HISTORY OF TWO SQUABBLING SIBLINGS - AND THEIR CONFIDANTES, PROTECTORS AND ENEMIESJanice Shriek, ex-society figure, narrates this tale with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions. We follow the adventures of her brother Duncan - an historian obsessed with a doomed love affair - and learn of a secret that may kill or transform him.We witness a war between rival publishing houses that will change the city of Ambergris forever. And we're introduced to the grey caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies. They've been waiting underground for their chance to mou…
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THE SCANDALOUS AND HEARTBREAKING SECRET HISTORY OF TWO SQUABBLING SIBLINGS - AND THEIR CONFIDANTES, PROTECTORS AND ENEMIESJanice Shriek, ex-society figure, narrates this tale with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions. We follow the adventures of her brother Duncan - an historian obsessed with a doomed love affair - and learn of a secret that may kill or transform him.We witness a war between rival publishing houses that will change the city of Ambergris forever. And we're introduced to the grey caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies. They've been waiting underground for their chance to mould the future of the city. This is an epic yet personal look at life, love and death in a vividly imagined landscape.'Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour'CHINA MIÉVILLE'Challenging, intelligent and downright fun'GUARDIAN'There are touches of Borges and Nabokov as well as H. P. Lovecraft in this tale of changing fortunes and shifting relationships . . . atmospheric'THE TIMES
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-4814-0
- EAN: 9781509848140
- Produktnummer: 22511846
- Verlag: Pan MacMillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.5 cm 327 g
- Auflage: New Edition
- Gewicht: 327
Über den Autor
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. His novels include the Ambergris series, and Annihilation. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.
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