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Welsh writer Rhys Hughes regards this as his favourite book, and with good reason. It is one of the funniest and most intelligent books from the lighter side of macabre writing I have ever seen. It clamours with a cast of pirates, floppy-wristed welsh bards, explorers and inventors, imps, squonks, moving public houses, M R Jamesian revenants, M R Jamesian punctuation, blueberry pies, trousers, noses, clocks, carrots . . . I cant list them all here, there isn't room. Like all the best books, this quirky and surreal collection is hard to classify, but it lies in that region where the macabre and eerie worlds of classic horror and fantasy become a basis for something else - for a dark and original sense of humour filled with unexpected cross-references, homages, satires and black comedy. What makes this collection remarkable is not just the delightfully murky and skewed tales themselves, but the complex and ingenious way they all lock together and interrelate. I was going to say 'tessellate' but if this is a tessellation then it is filled with impossible-sided polygons, non-Euclidean three-dimensional geometry, unexpurgated curves and cracks from which blueberry-scented steam emerges with a screaming hiss. But what is without doubt is that 'The Smell of Telescopes' is a magnificent book and a cornerstone of the rather oddly shaped corner of literature that it occupies. Since the first edition went out of print, the unavailability of this book has been a great crime of literature. And Eibonvale Press is, as always, dedicated to the righting of the world's more substantial wrongs.
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- PublisherEibonvale Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 9619165217
- ISBN 13 9789619165218
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
- IllustratorRix David
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Rix, David (illustrator). This is the FIRST PRINTING of the Eibonvale Press edition, having previously been published as s signed, limited edition by Tartarus Press in 2000. Unread. Bought new at publication and stored ever since. Tiny bump to head and tail of book spine and some creasing on dust jacket to mirror the bumps. A collection of 26 short stories. SYNOPSIS: "Welsh writer Rhys Hughes regards this as his favourite book and with good reason. This quirky and surreal collection is hard to classify but it lies in that region where the macabre and eerie worlds of classic horror and fantasy become a basis for something else - for a dark and original sense of humour filled with unexpected cross-references, homages, satires and black comedy." Packed weight 980gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 5595
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