Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
However defined, this collection of short pieces exemplifies its author's adventurous Neo-Goth-Pulp-Noir style. Gaiman plays with different tones; even different genres (the book includes several poems); and seems ever ready to take narrative risks. Confirmed Gaimanites will be particularly...
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However defined, this collection of short pieces exemplifies its author's adventurous Neo-Goth-Pulp-Noir style. Gaiman plays with different tones; even different genres (the book includes several poems); and seems ever ready to take narrative risks. Confirmed Gaimanites will be particularly delighted by a novella herein that features Shadow, the hero of his American Gods classic. Too innovative to be missed.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780060515225
Publish date: 26-09-2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
I started this book simply to read the Sherlock Holmes meets H.P. Lovecraft story, ” A Study in Emerald,” which was recommended to me by my oldest son. Being a fan of Holmes stories and anything Lovecraft writes, I was looking forward to Gaiman’s interpretation. Suffice it to say that I liked the st...
These stories were mostly all a delight to listen to - there were a few of them, however, that were sheer divinity. Just so you know ahead of time. :)Gaiman crafts all kinds of classic weirdness: vampires and ghosts and etc - but in a way that solidly his own unique style. The stories and poems a...
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