A Child Across the Sky (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
An inheritance from a suicidal friend leads a film director into an unimaginable reality in this novel by an author who is "one of the special ones" (Neil Gaiman).
Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fortune....
Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fortune....
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An inheritance from a suicidal friend leads a film director into an unimaginable reality in this novel by an author who is "one of the special ones" (Neil Gaiman).
Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fortune. Weber became one of the most respected directors of his generation, but Philip's talent went unnoticed until he found his calling making horror pictures, a genre in which his gruesome imagination could shine. But everything changes one morning when he calls his old friend Weber to say hello, then kills himself only an hour later. From Philip, Weber inherits a box of three videotapes. The first tape begins with Philip, warning Weber of challenges ahead, mysterious things he couldn't handle but believes that Weber can. Then Weber sees something unbelievable: a first-person view of his mother's last minutes alive before a plane crash took her life in 1960. Weber watches her settle into her airplane seat and read a newspaper, then hears the passengers scream as the jet falls from the sky. Before he died, Philip had unlocked a terrible secret. To understand it, Weber must learn the mysteries of death-no matter the cost.
From the author of Bathing the Lion and other acclaimed works, the recipient of honors ranging from the Bram Stoker Award to the World Fantasy Award, this is a novel filled with "wickedly imaginative twists and turns" (Publishers Weekly).
This ebook contains an all-new introduction by Jonathan Carroll, as well as an exclusive illustrated biography of the author including rare images from his personal collection.
Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fortune. Weber became one of the most respected directors of his generation, but Philip's talent went unnoticed until he found his calling making horror pictures, a genre in which his gruesome imagination could shine. But everything changes one morning when he calls his old friend Weber to say hello, then kills himself only an hour later. From Philip, Weber inherits a box of three videotapes. The first tape begins with Philip, warning Weber of challenges ahead, mysterious things he couldn't handle but believes that Weber can. Then Weber sees something unbelievable: a first-person view of his mother's last minutes alive before a plane crash took her life in 1960. Weber watches her settle into her airplane seat and read a newspaper, then hears the passengers scream as the jet falls from the sky. Before he died, Philip had unlocked a terrible secret. To understand it, Weber must learn the mysteries of death-no matter the cost.
From the author of Bathing the Lion and other acclaimed works, the recipient of honors ranging from the Bram Stoker Award to the World Fantasy Award, this is a novel filled with "wickedly imaginative twists and turns" (Publishers Weekly).
This ebook contains an all-new introduction by Jonathan Carroll, as well as an exclusive illustrated biography of the author including rare images from his personal collection.
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children's author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll's writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists. Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll's most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane's View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost in Love (2008). His short stories have been collected in The Panic Hand (1995) and The Woman Who Married a Cloud (2012). He lives and writes in Vienna.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Carroll
- 2012, 215 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- ISBN-10: 1453264914
- ISBN-13: 9781453264911
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2012
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Pressezitat
“[Carroll is] one of the special ones, one of the few. . . . He opens a window you did not know was there and invites you to look through it. He gives you his eyes to see with, and he gives you the world all fresh and honest and new. . . . He has the magic.” —Neil Gaiman “A searching, quicksilver tale. Brilliant.” —The Observer “Carroll’s style is elegant; his writing is by turns disturbing, fey, sardonic, grim—frequently within a single paragraph.” —Publishers Weekly
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