Edited by Michael Chabon, with illustrations by Mike Mignola
© 2004 by Random House / Vintage Books
ISBN: 1 400 07874 1, Paperback, 352 Seiten
enthält von Stephen King: Lisey and the Madman
(The story is about 30 pages long and about a writer who gets shot during a public appearance, told from the point of view of his wife.)
Inhalt:
Margaret Atwood- Lusus Naturae
David Mitchell- What You Do Not Know You Want
Jonathan Lethem- Vivian Relf
Ayelet Waldman - Minnow
Steve Erickson- Zeroville
Stephen King- Lisey and the Madman
Jason Roberts - 7C
Heidi Julavits- The Miniaturist
Roddy Doyle - The Child
Daniel Handler - Delmonico
Charles D'Ambrosio - The Scheme of Things
Poppy Z. Brite - The Devil of Delery Street
China Mieville- Reports of Certain Events in London
Joyce Carol Oates - The Fabled Light-house at Vi-a del Mar
Peter Straub - Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle
Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, and more!
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and the editors of McSweeney's have cajoled a stellar group of contemporary fiction masters -- including Alan Furst, Peter Straub, Roddy Doyle, and Stephen King -- into offering their original takes on the tried-and-true genres of adventure, science fiction, crime story, and horror.
From Publishers Weekly:
With this varied collection of enchanting though not always astonishing tales, Chabon (who also edited McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales) aims for an anthology full of "genre bending and stylistic play." There's quite a lineup of writers taking a stab at "genre" fiction here: many expected (Margaret Atwood, Stephen King), but a few surprises as well, and a newcomer or two. Atwood offers a fantastical tale of a human "lusus naturae" (freak of nature) who suffers from a nameless disease that results in yellow eyes, red fingernails and fangs-how does such a creature fit into a family? Jonathan Lethem's charming "Vivian Relf," which concerns two strangers who seem familiar to each other and who continue to cross each others' paths, is a kind of love story, but there are also tales creepy (Jason Roberts's "7C") and strange (China Miéville's "Reports of Certain Events in London"). Stephen King's "Lisey and the Madman" is full of engaging detail and feeling. While a couple of stories fail to reach the high-water mark, this collection will offer readers plenty of pleasure and perhaps even a sense of doing good (an endnote says that "this book benefits 826 Valencia," the San Francisco writing lab founded by Dave Eggers and Co.).
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Here's what King says about the book in a long interview recently posted at Guardian.co.uk:
"He has another book written, though he says it's 'a mess,' and has yet to decide whether anybody else should read it. It is about a writer's widow, and came about when he returned home from his hospitalisation for pneumonia to find his wife redecorating his office. "My wife says to me: 'Don't go in your office'. Like Bluebeard or something. I said, 'Why not?' She says: 'It's just a mess in there and it will really upset you.' One night I couldn't sleep and I went out there and she was right - it upset me. The furniture was all gone. The books were off the shelves. Everything was in boxes. It was just like a room that has been cleared out following an old person's death. It got me thinking about my own death and what would happen afterwards."
The entire interview can be read here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/crime/story/0,6000,1306991,00.html
Order the Book here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400078741/052379122979/
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