Jeff VanderMeer
City of Saints and Madmen
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BY TURNS SENSUOUS AND TERRIFYING - THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO VANDERMEER'S VIVIDLY IMAGINED WORLDSIn the city of Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's imagined a city called Ambergris, invented its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago. Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis - a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.These tales of Ambergris include the…
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BY TURNS SENSUOUS AND TERRIFYING - THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO VANDERMEER'S VIVIDLY IMAGINED WORLDSIn the city of Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's imagined a city called Ambergris, invented its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago. Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis - a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.These tales of Ambergris include the World Fantasy Award-winning novella, The Transformation of Martin Lake.'Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris'CHINA MIÉVILLE'Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work . . . enormously rewarding'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold'LOCUS
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-4815-7
- EAN: 9781509848157
- Produktnummer: 22511847
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 704 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D4.5 cm 488 g
- Gewicht: 488
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. His other novels include Annihilation and the Southern Reach trilogy.
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