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Bezig met laden... Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finchdoor Jeff VanderMeer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A stunningly designed book. Ambergris is a reissue of Jeff Vandermeer's Ambergris cycle: City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek, and Finch. The collection is huge and beautiful. The main draw for this collection, aside from is beauty, is the revisions to City of Saints and Madmen.The first book has been edited and revised for cohesiveness with the other two novels. For those looking for an even deeper dive into Vandermeer madness get the new omnibus and then look on ebay or other booksellers for older versions of City of Saints: first editions and or the Pan Macmillan editions that came out around the time of the Annihilation movie. Super great omnibus. Highly recommend. Dig in! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Ambergris (full series) BevatFinch door Jeff VanderMeer City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) A Note From Dr. V To Dr. Simpkin door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) X's Notes door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Release Of Belacqua door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) King Squid door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Hoegbotton Family History door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Cage door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) In The Hours After Death door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) A Letter From Dr. V To Dr. Simpkin door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) Man Who Had No Eyes door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Ambergris Glossary door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) Dradin, in love: A tale of elsewhen & otherwhere (Buzzcity first editions) door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Transformation Of Martin Lake door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) The Strange Case Of X door Jeff VanderMeer (indirect)
"Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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There is a sort of talmudic textuality to the second book Shriek: An Afterword. Janice Shriek claims to be writing a biography of her brother Duncan, and she includes excerpts from his journals. But he has reviewed and annotated her MS, although she seems to think he is already dead. Another editorial layer is revealed at the end. The "Afterword" is (at least initially) supposed to be end-matter to Duncan Shriek's "History of Ambergris" pamphlet that forms a portion of City of Saints and Madmen. In the course of the biography-cum-confession the reader is introduced to a tension between "Nativist" denial and the Shrieks' acceptance of human contingency and the mysterious mycelial agenda.
The third book Finch is a sort of noir detective story with an espionage substructure and Cronenberg horror esthetics. It reminded me of Mieville's The City and the City, and I also perceived something shaped like the corpse of Fleming's Casino Royale with psychedelic mushrooms sprouting all over it. It is divided into seven long chapters named for the days of the week over which the story takes place, and I serendipitously fell into the rhythm of reading them on the corresponding days of the last week of April.
This Farrar, Straus and Giroux omnibus reprint is a beautiful volume, and it provides a long and satisfying read. I did take pauses between each of the three books within. I gather that some editions of Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen under its own cover have additional content not included here, and I would be happy to spend time reading that at some point.