Shriek, Jeff VanderMeer
Shriek, Jeff VanderMeer
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Shriek
An Afterword

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 16 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2022

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris—previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen—Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice’s brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city.Part academic treatise, part tell-all biography, after this introduction to the Family Shriek, you’ll never look at history in quite the same way again.

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is a novelist and editor who has twice won the World Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and Philip K. Dick Awards, among others. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has recorded nearly two hundred audiobooks and directed many more. She has been nominated for and won multiple Audie Awards, as well as the prestigious Odyssey Award. She has received numerous starred audio reviews in both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards. Cassandra was also named a Best Voice by AudioFile for 2009 and 2010.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award–winning narrator and Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gabrielle

Updated review after a re-read in November 2018. --- Jeff VanderMeer has imagination in spades, that’s obvious the minute you crack any of his books open. Every story set in the city of Ambergris has a wonderfully dark, dirty, gritty, almost oppressively gothic atmosphere – something that I absolutely......more

Goodreads review by Brad

We book lovers can’t help speaking of authors as “the next ....” We’re always keeping our eyes open for the next Jane Austen or the next Ernest Hemingway or the next Salman Rushdie or the next Ursula K. LeGuin, and we gleefully trumpet their arrival in our reviews. Of course, what we really ought to......more

Goodreads review by C.

A review on the back of this book name-checks Nick Cave and "Hitchhikers Guide" -- please ignore the back of the book. I can't imagine anything less like Douglas Adams than this book. If I had to write a review of this book based primarily on name-checks, my list would include: Mervyn Peake, Edward......more

Quotes

“As complicated, impressive, and exasperating as anything he has written…VanderMeer makes no compromises with his readers, but Shriek is twisted, darkly funny, and ultimately rewarding.” The Guardian (London)

“An exceptional novel, a tapestry of fine writing, deep psychological insight, and acute narrative excitement…A dark fantasy of tremendous distinction.” Locus

“VanderMeer makes a triumphant return to Ambergris…in this masterful if difficult fantasy novel.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Place[s] Ambergris on the literary map beside both Gotham City and the Emerald City as one of the most memorable metropolises in speculative fiction.”  Booklist

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