We Never Talk about My BrotherFeaturing the Locus Award-winning novelette, "By Moonlight" The extraordinary stories in this new contemporary fantasy collection show a mature, darker side of the author of The Last Unicorn in modern parables of love, death, and transformation shadowed lightly with melancholy. The Angel of Death enjoys newfound celebrity while moonlighting as an anchorman on the network news; King Pelles the Sure, the shortsighted ruler of a gentle realm, betrays himself in dreaming of a "manageable war"; an American librarian discovers that, much to his surprise and sadness, he is also the last living Frenchman; and rivals in a supernatural battle forgo pistols at dawn, choosing instead to duel with dramatic recitations of terrible poetry. Featuring previously unpublished stories alongside recently published classics, this is a lovely, haunting, and wholly satisfying read. |
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... Faery came to me . " Darlington raised his eyebrows , but said nothing . - " It must have been an enchantment ... Faery rippling and flowing , on the far side of my closed eyelids . And I heard the music , for even a faery enchantment ...
Peter S. Beagle. In Faery space is just as deceptive as time . For instance , there always seems to be as much forest as any hunter could desire , and those who dwell in Faery love the chase just as we do . Only their beasts of venery ...
... Faery , then . Pity . " Darlington hesitated , and then asked , oddly but genuinely shy himself , " What about their music ? You'd not think So , but my family had a music master come to the house for lit- tle Roger . I was to be a ...
Contents
The Tale of Junko and Sayuri | 61 |
King Pelles the Sure | 95 |
The Last and Only | 107 |
Copyright | |
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