Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

《Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders》是William Morrow; Hardcover出版的图书，ISBN是0060515228。

• 书    名 Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
• 出版社 William Morrow; Hardcover
• 装    帧 精装
• 页    数 400页

图书信息

　　出版社: William Morrow; Hardcover (2006年9月26日)

　　外文书名: 小说精品: 短篇小说和作品精选

　　正文语种: 英语

　　开本: 32

Fragile Things

　　ISBN: 0060515228

　　条形码: 9780060515225

　　尺寸: 15.2 x 3.2 x 22.9 cm

　　重量: 594 来自g

作者简介

　　Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book Cor们aline and of the picture books The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Tw孔府o Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKe结切an. He wrote the script for the film MirrorMask and is also the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories for adults, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. Among his many awards are the World Fanta同评改派sy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, 360百科and the Bram Stoker Award. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.

内容简介

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认越当风利木素雨式　　A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a 来自Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victo360百科rian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . Two te知用低示儿优屋肥仍逐盾enage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-and nightmares . . . In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of a讲直n excusive ep女析养针演例业icurean club lament that they've eaten everything that ca营或任养棉强把杀n be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . Such marvelous creations and more-including a short 言美既都极斯急临价高story set in the world of The Matr示ix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and childr表都座程随en's fiction-can be found in this extraordinary colle八财得黄院ction, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as 据量全度却殖都背his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.

媒体评论

　　From AudioFile

　　Master storyte声开往强先ller Neil Gaiman begins this collection by introducing many of the stories, h需地秋践is introduction p苏杆各试波具写roving to be a story in its own right. Gaiman's performance aptitude matches his writing ability, as each tale resonates with subtlety and insight. Every characte北绍受息模继万r, no matter how brief his or her appearance, recei继何探ves impecc井验销谁able attention vocally and textually. A玉立乡限时秋区是nd every word of narrative shines. Listeners new 确换额保实体星振图相to Gaiman will be surprised by the variety of literary genres in this collection, from fairy tales to crime to romance and even science fiction. Gaiman steps nimbly through each, offering a shadow of meaning here, a barely perceptible nuance there, a punch of anger or a featherbed of sweetness where needed, leading his audience through 10 hours of the best listening of the year. R.L.L. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

　　From Booklist

　　*Starred Review* Like the first and second, Gaiman's third collection of unillustrated short pieces (he has comics collections in his portfolio, too) showcases a particular facet of his talent. Smoke and Mirrors (1998) effervesced with his jovial parody of fairy tales, Raymond Carver, monster movies, Beowulf, and even Bay Watch. Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002) collects various kinds of memoirs on being a professional fantasist. Parody--in the alternate-world Sherlock Holmes pastiche, "A Study in Emerald," and an imaginary last book of the Bible--and memoir (two reprints from Adventures and at least one story, "Closing Time," that Gaiman admits is full of real persons and events) also figure in this book, but most of the contents, including the memory pieces, exude the romanticism, often erotic, that makes his first two novels, Neverwhere (1997) and Stardust(1998), for all their darkness and grit, so powerfully attractive. Many are love stories, ranging in tone from the lowering super-noir of "Keepsakes and Treasures," in which a multibillionaire, abetted by the genius-sociopath narrator, finds and loses his particular beau ideal; to the sf-tinged horror of "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," in which two randy teens crash the wrong bash; to the love-conquers-all rapture of the poem "The Day the Saucers Came"; to the movingly sad triumph over time in the flat-out sf entry, "Goliath." Less loverly but lovelier are such archromantic tidbits as 15 tiny stories for cards from "a vampire tarot," the council of the personified months in "October in the Chair," the bittersweet shape-shifting of the commedia dell'arte-derived "Harlequin Valentine," and all the other poems. One delight after another, 31 in all, with a thirty-second tucked into the author's introduction. Ray Olson

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