The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
by Jeffrey Ford
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The World Fantasy Award-winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City Trilogy No matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford's stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They're grounded in the universal. The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ford's debut collection, is no exception. "Creation," which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and a nomination for a Nebula Award, relates a boy's attempts to animate a man made of sticks and show more pebbles. Even as the creature's life fades along with the summer, its loneliness and yearning for contact are palpable. Other blends of the worldly and otherworldly are evident in "Bright Morning," in which a man searches far and wide for a cursed Kafka book, and "At Reparata," when the grief of a king over the death of his queen takes the form of a destructive moth that could overtake the entire kingdom. The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, its titular story another Nebula Award finalist, reveals Jeffrey Ford at his creative best. show lessTags
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Better than I could write. Sometimes literary and beautiful, the stories will also bum you out. Downbeat and offbeat. I am not in the right phase of my life to love this stuff. Take these in small quantities.
Wow, this is the first of Ford's collections of short stories that I've read, and I was not disappointed. Each story takes you completely out of the safe and ordinary into new realms of imagination, where logic is only of the kiind you find in dreams. Aliens, zombies, curses- they're all here in one volume, ready to be enjoyed and remembered long after finishing.
If there is one Ford book to buy, this is it. There simply is no one currently writing short fiction better than Jeffrey Ford.
Genial. Incluye varios de mis cuentos favoritos de Ford.
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Jeffrey Ford is the author of nine novels and five short story collections. He has received the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and Edgar awards among others. A college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years, he lives with his wife Lynn in a century-old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields.
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- Original publication date
- 2002
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- English, German
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