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 Author Name: Jeffrey Ford
Title: The Empire of Ice Cream
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: New Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Urbana, IL Golden Gryphon Press 2006
ISBN Number: 1930846398 / 9781930846395
Cover Art: Picacio, John
Item#: KB0001662
1930846398 Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results - a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide, a demonic 16th-century chess set shows up in a New Jersey bar, and Charon, the boatman of hell, takes a few days vacation. Storylines both conventional and outlandish reveal humdrum routines as menacing, or imaginary worlds a s perfectly familiar. Allusions to authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne reinforce the fantasy tradition in these tales, while understated humor and moments of sadness add a quirky unpredictability. Also included is the previously unpublished novella , ''Botch Town,'' a coming-of-age story about a boy on Long Island whose family and friends live ordinary lives under threats both real and imagined. Each story is followed by a brief afterword that details its genesis.
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