Dreams of Distant Shores

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World Fantasy Award-winning author, Patricia A. McKillip, shines in this collection of tales. Dreams of Distant Shores compiles never before released short stories that exemplify her lyrical style and poet’s ear for storytelling.

From a goddess imbued in the statue of a mermaid, to a young artist’s possession by his muse, these powerful stories are seductive and strange, a combination that makes for stories like no other. Monsters, witches, magic, and death coexist and intermingle with the everyday, with artists, sailors, and waitresses. Part fairy tale, part lucid dreams, these tales are elegant, beautiful, and heartbreakingly vivid. Reading one is like everything wonderful about a Patricia McKillip novel distilled into concise, precise bites.

Elegant and absorbing, her work never reads as stiff or formal, as some fantasy stories can lean toward, and the language, while beautiful, never loses the reader, but instead remains both lyrical and deeply visceral. There is nothing quite like the experience of reading a Patricia McKillip novel. Fans of her work will not be disappointed in this collection, and likewise new readers will find themselves enchanted.


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Author Patricia A. McKillip
Star Count /5
Format Trade
Page Count 336 pages
Publisher Tachyon Publications
Publish Date 14-Jun-2016
ISBN 9781616962180
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Issue June 2016
Category Science Fiction & Fantasy
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