The Bible Repairman and Other Stories |
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Author:
| Powers, Tim |
ISBN: | 978-1-61696-071-1 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Publisher: | Tachyon Publications
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Praise for The Best of Joe R. Lansdale "Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection.... This is a great introduction to the raunchy, cheerfully unclassifiable East Texan bon vivant." --
Publishers Weekly "Let this volume introduce you to his uncensored, unfiltered world. He is a writer deserving of a wide and appreciative audience." --
The Guardian ...
More Description Praise for The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
"Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection.... This is a great introduction to the raunchy, cheerfully unclassifiable East Texan bon vivant."
--Publishers Weekly
"Let this volume introduce you to his uncensored, unfiltered world. He is a writer deserving of a wide and appreciative audience."
--The Guardian
"Indisputably one of horror's most revered craftsmen."
--Booklist
"The Best of Joe R. Lansdale is a must-have book for the lover of the weird, the champion of the bizarre, and the fan of the outrageous. If you are looking for a unique experience that will leave you equal parts stunned and nostalgic, frightened and amused, look no further."
--Fatally Yours
"Whether you are a die-hard Lansdale fan and want to get most of his best work in one volume or you are a neophyte to the Cult of Lansdale looking for a good starting point, this is the book for you."
--Kent Allard, Dead in the South
"Powers knows the ways we get haunted--by ambition, loss, greed, and heartbreak--and you finish reading this handful of beautifully crafted tales wishing he'd tell us more."
--Locus
"Most fantasy authors aim at persuading you of the reality of their invented worlds. Mr. Powers makes you doubt the reality of your own. Are there still sin-eaters and ghost-talkers quietly pursuing their trade in tenements and behind weed-infested yards, with regular tariffs and specializations? If there are, what do they know that you don't? That's what creates a true frisson."
--Wall Street Journal
"Poignant."
--Publishers Weekly
"Tim Powers's first collection of short fiction in over half a decade, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories is a potent six-story collection that plays effortlessly with many of the author's favorite themes."
--Green Man Review
"Powers specializes in hidden histories and all of these stories present a very real exterior and another world inside its cracks."
--Denver Post
"Powers's first new collection since 2005 assembles five stories and a novella, where he exhibits his extraordinary talent as a fantasist and his uncommon imaginative power."
--SF Site
"Superb.... Here, in potent, distilled form, you will find Powers's trademarked secret histories, heroically damaged (or damagedly heroic) losers, creepy supernatural phenomena, and macabre humor."
--Barnes & Noble Review