City of saints and madmen

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Author:

VanderMeer, Jeff, author.

Personal Author:

VanderMeer, Jeff, author.

ISBN:

9780374538606

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 19 cm

Series:

The Ambergris trilogy ; volume 1

General Note:

Originally published in 2002 by Prime Books.

Contents:

The book of Ambergris. The real VanderMeer : introduction /by Michael Moorcock -- Dradin, in love -- The Hoegbotton guide to the early history of Ambergris -- The transformation of Martin Lake -- The strange case of X -- Appendix. A letter from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin -- X's notes -- The release of Belacqua -- King Squid -- The Hoegbotton family history -- The cage -- In the hours after death -- A note from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin -- The man who had no eyes (encrypted) -- The Ambergris glossary.

Abstract:

"By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Ambergris (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.

Imaginary books and libraries -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction, American.

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Summary

From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation , comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen . In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited--an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.

City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that 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 that he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago . . .

By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "eyewitness" reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose--and find--yourself again.