We Never Talk About My Brother
Author: | Peter S. Beagle |
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Tachyon Publications, 2009 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The extraordinary stories in this new contemporary fantasy collection show a mature, darker side of the author of The Last Unicorn in modern parables of love, death, and transformation shadowed lightly with melancholy.
The Angel of Death enjoys newfound celebrity while moonlighting as an anchorman on the network news; King Pelles the Sure, the shortsighted ruler of a gentle realm, betrays himself in dreaming of a "manageable war"; an American librarian discovers that, much to his surprise and sadness, he is also the last living Frenchman; and rivals in a supernatural battle forgo pistols at dawn, choosing instead to duel with dramatic recitations of terrible poetry.
Featuring previously unpublished stories alongside recently published classics, this is a lovely, haunting, and wholly satisfying read.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Charles de Lint
- By Moonlight
- Chandail
- King Pelles the Sure
- Spook
- The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French
- The Stickball WitchThe Tale of Junko and Sayuri
- The Unicorn Tapestries
- Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel
- We Never Talk About My Brother
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