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Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen/ Shriek: An Afterword/ Finch
by VanderMeer, Jeff
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374103178
- ISBN 13
- 9780374103170
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover re issue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to t he fictional city of Ambergris, a beautiful and sinister sprawling metropol is populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and madmen. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries ; it thrives on cultural upheaval, and its politics are never short on intr igue, conspiracy, and even terror. There are stories within stories, myster y, mayhem, and a dark history that threatens to consume the city itself as the gray caps, the mysterious and deadly mushroom people who once ruled Amb ergris and have since been driven underground, now threaten to rise again. Ultimately, the fate of Ambergris comes to lie in the hands of John Finch, a beleaguered detective with a murder on to solve and too many loyalties fo r one man to bear. The city is bursting at its seams, seemingly held togeth er only by the tense, fraying tendrils of his investigation. The Ambergris trilogy is made up of three novels, each of which has become a cult classic in its own right: City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. It is a marvelous, unparalleled feat of imagination. And yet the books themselves, as celebrated and influential as they have become, have a publishing history as arcane and elaborate as Ambergris itself. Over the years they have slipped in and out of p.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000065405
- Title
- Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen/ Shriek: An Afterword/ Finch
- Author
- VanderMeer, Jeff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374103178
- ISBN 13
- 9780374103170
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date Published
- 2020
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