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City of Saints and Madmen
- Author
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrator
- Bronson Pinchot
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 12 March 2022
- Run Time
- 11 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Fantasy, Fantasy, Anthologies: general
What to expect
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 you’ve ever visited—an 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 beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.
By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
Critics Review
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“This is fiction to stand alongside that of Calvino and Borges.”
The Guardian (London)
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“City of Saints and Madmen packs so much literary and emotional matter into the confines of one city…VanderMeer keeps going deeper and finding new forms of gold.”
Locus
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“Beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work…Connoisseurs of the finest in postmodern fantasy will find it enormously rewarding.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“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, winner of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
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“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 favorite haunts in fiction.”
China Mieville, author of The Last Days of New Paris
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Details
- Author
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrator
- Bronson Pinchot
- Duration
- 11 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9781982615079
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fantasy, Fantasy, Anthologies: general
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 you’ve ever visited—an 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 beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
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