The Living Blood (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
528
Utgivningsdatum
2002-01-01
Förlag
Atria Books
Illustrationer
(T)
Dimensioner
130 x 210 x 30 mm
Vikt
520 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780671040840

The Living Blood

av Tananarive Due
Häftad,  Engelska, 2002-01-01
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*From the author of The ReformatoryA New York Times Notable Book of 2023* The bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspensea gripping tale that showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities. Due has become a modern-day Octavia Butler, a talented storyteller who stands tall among her horror cohorts Anne Rice and Stephen King. The Boston Globe Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her husband left to their second daughter, Fana...a legacy preordained a thousand years before her time and drenched in the powerful lifeblood that now courses through her veins. As young Fana begins to display unearthly abilities that are quickly spiraling out of control, she becomes the target of those who will stop at nothing to exploit her powerand the unwitting touchstone in an ancient supernatural battle whose outcome may decide the fate of all humanity.
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Publishers Weekly (starred review) Stunning...an event of sustained power and energy....This novel...should set a standard for supernatural thrillers of the new millennium. Peter Straub One of the best and most significant novelists of her generation. Peter Straub New York Times bestselling author of Mr. X and Ghost Story Smart, soulful, crafty Tananarive Due deserves the attention of everyone interested in contemporary American fiction. In The Living Blood, this young writer opens up realms of experience that add to our storehouse of shared reality, and by doing so widens our common vision. Tina McElroy Ansa Tananarive Due continues to thrill, intrigue, and frighten us with her special brand of fiction. No one else can capture the particular hum and beat of her vision, which extends from South Florida to South Africa. Tananarive Due is creating classics.

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Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Awardwinning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.

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