City of Saints and Madmen
Synopsis
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any youโve ever visitedโan invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on tโฆ In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any youโve ever visitedโan invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheadingโand finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced heโs made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that heโs really from a place called Chicago.โฆ By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and โeyewitnessโ reports invokes a universe within a puzzlebox where you can loseโand findโyourself again. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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