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The Drowned Life (2008)

by Jeffrey Ford(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061435066 (ISBN13: 9780061435065)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: Hands down the best collection I've ever read. Nebula-Winner Ford's (The Well-Built City Trilogy) limitless imagination pops off the page in linguistic fireworks with narratives nestled like Russian dolls in his third collection, a 16-story opus that reads like a primer to the genres of speculative fiction. In "Night Whiskey," a bizarre small town celebrates the annual harvest of the deathberry, which grants passage to the afterlife for a single night. "The Dismantled Invention of Fate" follows a cavalier astronaut across the universe where he discovers love in the form of a blue-skinned warrior amid forests of red grass. In "The Manticore Spell," a medieval apprentice of the occult investigates the appearance of a mythical beast, while "The House of Four Seasons" imagines... more a distant-future sanatorium where patients fight to escape woods and meadows encapsulated at the bottom of a dark lake. Each story acts as a portal to worlds both peculiar and hauntingly beautiful, masterfully realized by Ford's transcendent prose. While fans of fantasy, SF, and horror will find plenty of thrills in this instant classic, Ford's accessible, literary yarns will appeal to any reader hungry for a unique experience.
review 2: My Husband gave me this book for Christmas after hearing rave reviews on NPR. Originally, I thought it was a novel, but it turned out to be a series ecclectic short stories, all by the same author. Most of the stories were strange or fantastic and almost all of them dealt with death. While I found the stories to be intriguing, I was very disappointed with the swearing which was present in every story. less

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