Five Autobiographies and a Fiction

Five Autobiographies and a Fiction

Five Autobiographies and a Fiction, the long-awaited new collection from master storyteller Lucius Shepard, is a significant publishing event, a volume equal in every way to such earlier Shepard classics as The Jaguar Hunter and The Dragon Griaule. Its six long stories offer narrative pleasures as diverse and profound as anything to be found in modern imaginative fiction.

'Ditch Witch,' set in rural Oregon, concerns a young man on the run in a stolen car, a hitchhiker who may or may not have witch-like powers, and the bizarre inhabitants of the seemingly innocuous Elfland Motel. 'The Flock' is a tale of high school football and small town malaise set against an impossible intrusion from the natural world. A washed-up actor and a Malaysian 'woman of power' stand at the center of 'Vacancy,' the account of a man forced to confront the very real demons of his past. 'Dog-eared Paperback of My Life' follows a writer (Thomas Cradle) on his erotically charged journey down the Mekong River, a journey enveloped in a maze of multiple, interpenetrating realities. 'Halloween Town' tells the story of a small, extremely strange town and one of its denizens, Clyde Ormoloo, a man who sees too deeply into the 'terrible incoherence' of human affairs. The final story, 'Rose Street Attractors,' takes us into 19th century London and the heart of the steampunk era in the richly atmospheric tale of a most unusual haunting. Rounding out this generous volume is an Introduction in which Shepard offers a startlingly frank assessment of his own troubled adolescence, identifying the 'alternate versions' of himself that appear in these pages and illuminating those points at which fiction and 'near-autobiography' converge.

Lyrical, brutal, and always powerfully composed, Five Autobiographies and a Fiction is something special. Each of these six novellas speaks in its own distinctive voice. Each one takes us into the heart of a thoroughly imagined world. Only Lucius Shepard could have created those worlds. Only Lucius Shepard could have given us this book.

Country	USA
Author	Lucius Shepard
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Shepard, Lucius
EAN	9781596065550
Edition	Deluxe Hardcover
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1596065559
Label	Subterranean
Manufacturer	Subterranean
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	368
PublicationDate	2013-04-30
Publisher	Subterranean
Studio	Subterranean
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Five Autobiographies and a Fiction

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