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The Drowned Life
| Author: | Jeffrey Ford |
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Harper Perennial, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Weird (Fantasy) Magical Realism |
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Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents:
- The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette
- Ariadne's Mother - (2007) - short story
- The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette
- A Few Things About Ants - (2006) - short story
- Under the Bottom of the Lake - (2007) - short story
- Present from the Past - (2003) - novelette
- The Manticore Spell - (2007) - short story
- The Fat One - (2008) - short story
- The Dismantled Invention of Fate - (2008) - novelette
- What's Sure to Come - (2002) - short story
- The Way He Does It - (2006) - short story
- The Scribble Mind - (2005) - novelette
- The Bedroom Light - (2007) - short story
- In the House of Four Seasons - (2005) - short story
- The Dreaming Wind - (2007) - short story
- The Golden Dragon - (2008) - short story
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