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Shriek: An Afterword
Jeff Vandermeer
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Description for Shriek: An Afterword
Paperback. Series: Ambergris. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix. 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 their chance to mould the future of the city. ... Read more
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix. 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 their chance to mould the future of the city. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Ambergris
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509848140
SKU
V9781509848140
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99-5
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. His novels include the Ambergris series, ... Read more
Reviews for Shriek: An Afterword
Five stars . . . from an author who should be turning heads in the 'serious' literary world
BBC Focus Magazine
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
Challenging, intelligent and downright fun
Guardian ... Read more
BBC Focus Magazine
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
Challenging, intelligent and downright fun
Guardian ... Read more