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City of Saints and Madmen
Jeff Vandermeer
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Description for City of Saints and Madmen
Paperback. Series: Ambergris. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix. From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Mieville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer's vividly imagined world. In 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 ... Read more
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix. From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Mieville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer's vividly imagined world. In 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Ambergris
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509848157
SKU
V9781509848157
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99-8
About 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. He grew up in the Fiji ... Read more
Reviews for City of Saints and Madmen
Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work . . . enormously rewarding
Publishers Weekly
VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold
Locus
This is fiction to stand alongside that of Calvino and Borges
Guardian
Unsettling, erudite, dark ... Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction
China Mieville
Publishers Weekly
VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold
Locus
This is fiction to stand alongside that of Calvino and Borges
Guardian
Unsettling, erudite, dark ... Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction
China Mieville