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A natural history of hell : stories
- Title
- A natural history of hell : stories / Jeffrey Ford.
- Author
- Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-
- Publication
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-4458 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 279 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Praise for Jeffrey Ford:"Outstanding. Ford uses. incongruously lyrical phrases to infuse the everyday with a nebulous magic."--Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year(Starred Review)"For lovers of the weird and fantastic and lovers of great writing, this is a treasure trove of disturbing visions, new worlds and fully realized craft."--Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)"Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of exhilarating visions. Jeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John Gardner at S.U.N.Y Binghamton. He's been a college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of eight novels including The Girl in the Glass and four short story collections. He has received the World Fantasy, Nebula, Edgar, and Shirley Jackson awards. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields"--
- "A book of fantastic stories about the hell on earth that is living"--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Contents
- The blameless -- Word doll -- The angel seems -- Mount Chary Galore -- A natural history of autumn -- Blood drive -- A terror -- Rocket ship to hell -- The fairy enterprise -- The last triangle -- Spirits of salt : A tale of the coral heart -- The thyme fiend -- The prelate's commission.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-4458
- ISBN
- 9781618731180
- 1618731181
- LCCN
- 2015046490
- OCLC
- 923553240
- Author
- Ford, Jeffrey, 1955- author.
- Title
- A natural history of hell : stories / Jeffrey Ford.
- Publisher
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ford, Jeffrey, 1955- author. Natural history of hell First edition. Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016] 9781618731197 (DLC) 2015050550
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-4458