{"product_id":"9780374103170","title":"Ambergris : City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmbergris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eBorne \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a beautiful and sinister sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and madmen. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries; it thrives on cultural upheaval, and its politics are never short on intrigue, conspiracy, and even terror. There are stories within stories, mystery, mayhem, and a dark history that threatens to consume the city itself as the gray caps, the mysterious and deadly mushroom people who once ruled Ambergris and have since been driven underground, now threaten to rise again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, the fate of Ambergris comes to lie in the hands of John Finch, a beleaguered detective with a murder on to solve and too many loyalties for one man to bear. The city is bursting at its seams, seemingly held together only by the tense, fraying tendrils of his investigation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ambergris trilogy is made up of three novels, each of which has become a cult classic in its own right: \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a marvelous, unparalleled feat of imagination. And yet the books themselves, as celebrated and influential as they have become, have a publishing history as arcane and elaborate as Ambergris itself. Over the years they have slipped in and out of print and have never before been available as a complete trilogy. Until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans both new and old of the work of Jeff VanderMeer, \u003ci\u003eAmbergris\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading. Welcome to Ambergris. We can’t promise you’ll leave untransformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Ambergris Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris. Unsettling, erudite, and shot through with unexpected humor...Ambergris is one of my favourite haunts in fiction” —China Mieville on \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is fiction to stand alongside that of Calvino and Borges.” —The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Make the most of the tapestry of tales and visions before you. It is a rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It’s what you’ve been looking for.”  —Michael Moorcock on \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e packs so much literary and emotional matter into the confines of one city...VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold.”—\u003ci\u003eLocus \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine on \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints and Madmen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As complicated, impressive, and compelling as anything he has written...Twisted, darkly funny, and ultimately rewarding.” —Jon Courtenay Grimwood,\u003ci\u003e The Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the hands of a brilliant writer like Jeff VanderMeer, writing fantasy can be a means of serious artistic expression. In VanderMeer’s hands, it is also playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly, imaginative.” —Peter Straub  on \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Like some delicious mash-up of H.P. Lovecraft, Mervyn Peake, and L. Frank Baum, but with his own verbal dexterity and perverse ingenuity…[An] affecting narrative about love, art, sibling rivalry, commerce, history, and some really nasty ’shrooms.” —Paul Di Filippo, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wildly inventive...With literary stylings, a complex plot, and ideas that lesser writers could not imagine, it further establishes him as the finest fantasist of his generation.”—Rick Klaw,\u003ci\u003e Austin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eShriek: An Afterword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting--the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris--proves as the light fails to be the finest character of all.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Gene Wolfe on\u003ci\u003e Shriek: An Afterword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fungal noir. Steampunk delirium. Paranoid spy thriller, quite literally, on ‘shrooms.” —Richard K. Morgan, author of  Altered Carbon on \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Utterly original. Utterly convincing. Utterly engrossing.”—Lev Grossman on \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fungalpunk nightmare pullulating with dark, phantasmagorical transformations...A stylish detective story, a perverse example of the New Weird fantasy subgenre, and an effective metaphor for the dehumanising effects of...totalitarian regimes.\" —Eric Brown, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intriguing and highly original...wriggles from the grip of easy categorization. It's full of fantastical elements and genuinely humane ones, too. VanderMeer can write beautifully [and]...insightfully.”—Victor Lavalle, \u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePost, \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I would have sworn you can’t unite noir and fantasy, and oh how gloriously wrong Jeff VanderMeer proved me to be...I loved the meeting of the grime and the sublime and oh so beautifully crafted. Rarely has a novel got it all. Think Cormac McCarthy, via David Goodis, with an amazing nod to Lovecraft and still that doesn’t quite capture the spell this novel casts from the off.” —Ken Bruen on \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChinatown\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e with a sprinkling of \u003ci\u003eTetsuo II: The Bodyhammer. \u003c\/i\u003eA must for fans of fantasy, noir, great writing, or, of course, fungus.” —Joe Abercrombie on \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Told in a pitch-perfect voice and steeped in the unrelenting menace authentic to the best works of noir, \u003ci\u003eFinch\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful, sad, brutal, and beautiful book. 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