The Safety of Unknown Cities - Softcover

Taylor, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189295012X ISBN 13: 9781892950123

Publisher: Overlook Connection Press, 1999

Synopsis

"One of the most impressive debut novels . . . centered around relationship-driven fiction catalyzed by horrific events, mostly realistic, sometimes supernatural. . . . Indeed it's sexual, it's graphically written, but it's also . . . an affecting and powerful novel about heartbreak and the untimely destruction of childhood."--Edward Bryant, "Locus."

About this title

From the Publisher

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel from the Horror Writers Association! Exclusive Introduction for The Overlook Connection Press edition by Lucy Taylor Original Cover illustration by renowned artist Neal McPheeters

From the Author

Despite the often graphic sex in Cities, the book is also about the desperate human need for connection. Val, of course tries to achieve it by "changing partners with the same frequency that she changed countries." In a less forthright way, Breen suffers from a similar pattern. As a young boy burglarizing houses, he realized that he could, in a sense, become intimate with those he stole from by going through their personal items, their letters, diaries, whatever. Then later, he made the jump to a darker form of intimacy-the perusal of the contents of their bodies. -From the OCP Introduction to Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Connection Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 189295012X
• ISBN 13: 9781892950123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284