City of Saints and Madmen
of Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author), Michael Moorcock (Introduction)
Series: Ambergris #1
Description
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any youâve ever visitedâan 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 beheadingâand finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced heâs made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that heâs really from a place called Chicago.âŠBy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and âeyewitnessâ reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can loseâand findâyourself again.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 704 pages
- Publisher Bantam
- Publication Date December 18th 2007
- First Publication 10/28/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780553383577
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science Fiction & Fantasy
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