The drowned life
By: Jeffrey Ford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780061435065
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The drowned life; title: Ariadne's mother; title: The night whiskey; title: A few things about ants; title: Under the bottom of the lake; title: Present from the past; title: The manticore spell; title: The fat one; title: The dismantled invention of fate; title: What's sure to come; title: The way he does it; title: The scribble mind; title: The bedroom light; title: In the house of four seasons; title: The dreaming wind; title: The golden dragon.