Shriek
An Afterword
$39.74
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2018
Summary
Janice 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 Ambergris forever. And we’re introduced to the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies, who’ve been waiting underground for th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509848140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509848142 |
| Author: | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Ambergris |
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Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour
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 *
Five stars … from an author who should be turning heads in the ‘serious’ literary world * BBC Focus Magazine *
About The Author
Jeff VanderMeer
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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