$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins / ISBN:9780061435065)
The Drowned Life
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .
There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildings and bloated corpses—by those so overburdened by the world's demands that they simply give up and go under. . . .
In this mesmerizing blend of the familiar and the fantastic, multiple award-winning New York Times notable author Jeffrey Ford creates true wonders and infuses the mundane with magic. In tales marked by his distinctive, dark imagery and fluid, exhilarating prose, he conjures up an annual gale that transforms the real into the impossible, invents a strange scribble that secretly unites a significant portion of society, and spins the myriad dreams of a restless astronaut and his alien lover. Bizarre, beautiful, unsettling, and sublime, The Drowned Life showcases the exceptional talents of one of contemporary fiction's most original artists.
World Fantasy Awards 2009 Winners
Tales From Outer Suburbia
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?
Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?
Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, cre... More »
Review
Tender Morsels
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. It is a tale of journeys and transformations, penetrating the boundaries between male and female, reality and myth, con... More »
Review
Paper Cities: An Anthology Of Urban Fantasy
$25.95 (Paperback book / Senses Five Press )
The city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more. F... More »
The Shadow Year
$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detaile... More »
The Drowned Life
$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .
There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildin... More »
Jeffrey Ford
The Drowned Life
$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .
There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildin... More »
The Shadow Year
$29.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detaile... More »
The Portrait Of Mrs Charbuque
$18.95 (Paperback book / Tor )
A fable, a nightmare, a vision, a mystery - superbly rich imaginative fiction at its best.
New York, 1893, and society portrait painter Piero Piambo feels his artistic ambition waning, even while he immortalizes the city... More »
The Shadow Year
$48.00 (Hardcover book / William Morrow & Co )
In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely s... More »
The Portrait Of Mrs Charbuque
$30.00 (Paperback book / Tor )
A fable, a nightmare, a vision, a mystery - superbly rich imaginative fiction at its best.
New York, 1893, and society portrait painter Piero Piambo feels his artistic ambition waning, even while he immortalizes the city... More »
The Physiognomy
$18.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
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World Fantasy Awards 2009 Shortlist - Collections
Filter House
$30.95 (Paperback book / Aqueduct Press )
Filter House collects the short fiction by Nisi Shawl and includes an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collections fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the ... More »
The Drowned Life
$25.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .
There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildin... More »
Tales From Outer Suburbia
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?
Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?
Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, cre... More »
Review
Pretty Monsters
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second loo... More »
The Wrong Grave
$22.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything in this collection of short stories deserves a second look.
From the multiple award-winning The Faery Handbag, in which a teena... More »