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Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures by Swanwick, Michael
by Swanwick, Michael | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781892391070
- Book Title
- Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 1.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 94 Pages
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Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, this collection of award-winning author Michael Swanwick's short-short fiction is a work of masterfully sustained whimsy for adults. Cigar-Box Faust contains more than seventy fantastical stories in fewer than a hundred pages. The title piece is a five-minute condensation of a classic of Western literature, featuring a cigar-cutter as Mephistopheles; a box of matches in the roles of Helen of Troy, an Angel of the Lord, and the Light of Ontology; and a cigar as Faust himself. Although it has previously been performed live by the author, this is its first appearance in print. There is also an abecedary showcasing Swanwick's bravura imagination with a separate story for every letter of the alphabet, another set of tales for every planet in the solar system, and a series of pieces that the author literally wrote in his sleep! To say nothing of a clutch of alternate autobiographies, a novella of decadence and corporate politics in a
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
ISBN-10
1892391074
ISBN-13
9781892391070
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6022216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
94 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
1.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.W28a6 2003
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"...wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including 'An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis, "Wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including 'An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis, ...wonderful strangeness." — True Review Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including ‘An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." — Locus Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." — Washington Post Book World Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." — Fantastic Metropolis, "...wonderful strangeness." -- True Review "Always brilliant, Swanwick shines in these quirky short pieces, with over 70 gathered in this collection, including #145;An Abecedary of the Imagination,' with six new entries." -- Locus "Miniaturized, tightly compressed fictions that are alternately startling, funny, and mysterious and often possess the resonance of especially vivid dreams...a whimsical, wonderfully eccentric collection." -- Washington Post Book World "Felicities, surprises, bon-mots, witticisms, epiphanies, goodies of every description." -- Fantastic Metropolis
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2017-478269
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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