num_pages: 320
description: For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass Soup, Carroll continues to astound . . . .The realm of the dead is built from the dreams--and nightmares--of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to hell.Once before, Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child, who may someday restore the ever-changing mosaic that is reality. Unless the agents of Chaos can lure her back to the land of the dead--and trap her there forever.Glass Soup is another exquisite and singular creation from the author January magazine described as "incapable of writing a bad book much less an uninteresting one."
language: English
title: Glass Soup
titlecomplete: Glass Soup  (Vincent Ettrich, #2)
characters: Isabelle Neukor, Broximon, Simon Haden, Vincent Ettrich, John Flannery
genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, College, Literature, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 1462
series: Vincent Ettrich
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: Tor Books