We Never Talk about My Brother

Peter S. Beagle

Tachyon Publications, 2009 - Fiction - 219 pages

Featuring 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Featuring previously unpublished stories alongside recently published classics, this is a lovely, haunting, and wholly satisfying read.

Contents

• The Tale of Junko and Sayuri: 61
• King Pelles the Sure: 95
• The Last and Only: 107

About the author

Peter S. Beagle is the best-selling author of The Last Unicorn, which has sold a reported five million copies since its initial publication in 1968. His other novels include A Fine & Private Place, The Innkeeper's Song, and Tamsin. His short fiction has been collected in four volumes by Tachyon Publications, including The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche, The Line Between, We Never Talk About My Brother, and Sleight of Hand. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire awards as well as the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Bibliographic information

• Title: We Never Talk about My Brother
• Author: Peter S. Beagle
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications, 2009
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 28, 2010
• ISBN: 189239183X, 9781892391834
• Length: 219 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Literary