Shriek, an afterword, Jeff VanderMeer
Type
Label
Shriek, an afterword, Jeff VanderMeer
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Shriek
Oclc number
62408639
Responsibility statement
Jeff VanderMeer
Sub title
an afterword
Summary
Janice Shriek, a failed gallery owner and journalist, has ostensibly created an afterword to The Early History of Ambergris by her brother, Duncan Shriek, a talented if unconventional historian who finds his career in shambles after his controversial theories concerning Ambergris's founding and the genocide perpetrated against its nonhuman inhabitants gain public disfavor. Worse yet, he's caught in a love affair with one of his students, Mary Sabon. A tragic, brooding figure, Duncan makes repeated journeys underground, into the world of the alien gray caps, and is eventually transformed into something both wonderful and inhuman. Ambergris is a city of magnificent, decaying architecture and multiple baroque religions, where publishers fight wars for control of civilization and authors of obscure historical texts can be major bestsellers at the Borges Bookstore