We never talk about my brother / Peter S. Beagle.
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TextPublication details: San Francisco, CA : Tachyon Publications, c2009.Description: xv, 219 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 189239183X (pbk.)
- 9781892391834 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Beagle, Peter S | Available | 33111005617549 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Featuring the Locus Award-winning novelette, 'By Moonlight' The extraordinary stories in this new contemporary fantasy collection show a mature, darker side of the author of The Last Unicorn in modern parables of love, death, and transformation shadowed lightly with melancholy. The Angel of Death enjoys newfound celebrity while moonlighting as an anchorman on the network news; King Pelles the Sure, the shortsighted ruler of a gentle realm, betrays himself in dreaming of a 'manageable war'; an American librarian discovers that, much to his surprise and sadness, he is also the last living Frenchman; and rivals in a supernatural battle forgo pistols at dawn, choosing instead to duel with dramatic recitations of terrible poetry. Featuring previously unpublished stories alongside recently published classics, this is a lovely, haunting, and wholly satisfying read.
"The nine extraordinary stories in Peter S. Beagle's new fantasy collection are profound explorations of love, death, transformation, and the choices that define just who and what we are. ... [Includes] the recently rediscovered poem cycle, The unicorn tapestries"--P. [4] of cover.
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel -- We never talk about my brother -- The tale of Junko and Sayuri -- King Pelles the Sure -- The last and only, or, Mr. Moscowitz becomes French -- Spook -- The stickball witch -- By moonlight -- The unicorn tapestries -- Chandail.