Such miraculous inventions and more await within Neil Gaiman's first collection of short fiction, a gift of wonder and delight from one of the most unique literary artists of our day. Beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks, a frightened little boy bargains for his life with a most persistent troll. A young couple receives a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternate history of their marriage. A stray cat fights and refights a nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from an unimagiable evil. The astonishing and impressive first collection of short stories from New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store. Includes a sneak peek at Gaiman's new hardcover "Anasi Boys," available in September. Now available in mass market is the definitive collection of short stories that reveals one of the world's most gifted fantasy writers at the peak of his form.
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Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with anĪrmored golem and burdened by guilt. To the captain of the airship Ketty Jay-or his motley crew. Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. The narration begins with Carmen, who introduces the pants and their magic, and then begins to tell the story of her summer in South Carolina. The story is told by four narrators – Carmen, who finds the pants and who is going to South Carolina to stay with her dad for the summer Bridget, a soccer star who is going to soccer camp in Mexico Lena, who is visiting her grandparents in Greece and Tibby, who is staying home in Bethesda, Maryland to work at a drug store while her friends are gone. As the girls separate for the summer, they each experience their own struggles but are given strength by the pants, which they ship back and forth from Mexico to Maryland to Greece to South Carolina. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the first book in a series by Ann Brashares about four teenaged friends, Bridget, Tibby, Lena, and Carmen, who are bonded by their love for each other and a pair of magical thrift store pants, that miraculously fit all of them despite their dramatically different body types. Surgery is ruled out for the octogenarian, and the author is a helpless, horrified witness to his father's humiliating demise, ``utterly isolated within a body that had become a terrifying escape-proof enclosure, the holding pen in a slaughterhouse.'' In a fast-paced, cogent memoir, Roth, whose filial devotion and awe are tempered with clear-eyed observational powers, ranges far afield and discusses the anti-Semitism of the insurance firm that employed Herman Roth for 40 years Herman's perfectionism and his latter-day disregard for his wife whom he nevertheless elevated to quasi-sainthood after death Herman's abandonment of his phylacteries in a locker at the local YMHA the author's quintuple bypass surgery weeks before his father's death and Herman's incontinence and the ample size of his genitals. In Patrimony: A True Story, published in 1991, Philip Roth made that journey with his 86-year-old father, who had been struck by a virulent brain tumor, leaving him utterly isolated within a body that had become a terrifying escape-proof enclosure, the holding pen in a slaughterhouse. A vigorous 86-year-old, Roth pere wakes up one morning and half his face is paralyzed soon he is deaf in one ear and the verdict is a benign brain tumor. Instead, here is Roth (NBCC Award-winning The Counterlife ) at his most humane as he pens a kaddish to his recently deceased father, Herman. Alter ego Nathan Zuckerman doesn't appear in these pages, and neither is there any sleight of hand blurring the line between literature and life. |