Лучшие книги Фред Чаппелл
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A Shadow All of Light Fred Chappell
ISBN: 9780765379122 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Tor Books Язык: Английский In the province of Tlemia, where human shadows are powerful commodities, an apprentice shadow thief embarks on an extraordinary adventure. This stylish, episodic fantasy novel, in the mode of classic Jack Vance, follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. Maestro Astolfo, whose mysterious powers of observation would rival those of Sherlock Holmes, sees Falco's potential and puts him through a grueling series of physical lessons and intellectual tests. Необычайные приключения похитителя теней и его ученика в…
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Dagon Fred Chappell
ISBN: 0917990943 Год издания: 1987 Издательство: St. Martin's Press Язык: Английский Peter Leland, a young minister, inherits his grandparents' farm in the mountains of North Carolina. He and his wife decide it is the perfect place to spend the summer so Peter can finish his book on Dagon, the maimed pagan deity of fertility described in the First Book of Samuel and in Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony, and whom Peter has preached is still worshiped in American culture." But returning to the house of his ancestral Puritan roots, and the place of murky childhood memories as well, strangely affects Peter. He withdraws - from his wife, his writing - increasingly enthralled by a young woman, Mina, the daughter of a tenant…
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Look Back All the Green Valley Fred Chappell
ISBN: 978-0312243104 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский A Southeast Booksellers Association Best Book of the Year
Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to tend to his ailing mother, and clean out his deceased father's workroom. What he discovers there leads him—and the reader—on an unforgettable journey through the secret life of Jess's father, Joe Robert, which culminates in a moment of profound mystery and comedy. -
The Inkling (Voices of the South) Fred Chappell
ISBN: 978-0807123171 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Louisiana State University Press Язык: Английский Within the household they share with their mother and uncle in rural North Carolina, Jan, wound mentally taut as a trap, and his retarded sister, Timmie, form a strange but mutually protective partnership. Both children, wise with intimations beyond the shallow comprehension of their elders, are visited with a foreboding sense of fatality. When the family takes on a new member - a young redheaded housekeeper with goals of her own - the deranged equilibrium in their lives erupts at last in a brilliant shower of inevitable but nonetheless stunning events.