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Secret Life

By Vandermeer, Jeff VanderMeer

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| Paperback | 9780809556526

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Secret Life is the definitive collection by a young writer widely regarded as one of the best fantasists in the world. Jeff VanderMeer has handpicked these 23 stories (three written exclusively for this collection), which reflect a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition:Continue

Secret Life is the definitive collection by a young writer widely regarded as one of the best fantasists in the world. Jeff VanderMeer has handpicked these 23 stories (three written exclusively for this collection), which reflect a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition: mortality, love, obsession and creativity - all shot through with dark humor and irony. Secret Life represents the author's continuing effort to stretch the narrative boundaries of fiction while still entertaining the reader. Yet all of these stories are related thematically: transformation and what it means to be human - and the reader too will be transformed, into one of the faithful, a confirmed believer in the short fiction of Jeff VanderMeer.

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  • Secret Life

    "Jeff VanderMeer writes as if in a fevered dream." That's one opening line that came to mind while reading this collection. "Jeff VanderMeer writes with one foot rooted in the Victorian Era and the other planted in next-century's answer to post-moder ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • Secret Life: The Select Fire Remix

    The Select Fire Remix is a slightly altered version of Jeff VanderMeer's short fiction collection Secret Life (originally published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2004). It features about twenty pieces of short fiction (the exact number is not that easil ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 284 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0809556529
  • ISBN-13: 9780809556526
  • Publisher: Wildside Press
  • Pub date: Dec 13, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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