A collection of short stories.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. Shes also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945.... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isnt easy to make friends when youre the only inflatable boy in town.... Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now hes an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing....John Finney is locked in a basement thats stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead....The past isnt dead. It isnt even past...
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A collection of short stories.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. Shes also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945.... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isnt easy to make friends when youre the only inflatable boy in town.... Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now hes an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing....John Finney is locked in a basement thats stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead....The past isnt dead. It isnt even past...
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- ویرایش
- First American Edition
- تعداد صفحات
- ۳۱۶
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- William Morrow
- شابک
- 9780000000000
جوایز
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection (2005)
- Locus Award Nominee for Best Collection (2006)
- World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2006)
- IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (2006)
- Audie Award (2008)
- Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2010)
۱ جایزهٔ دیگر
- British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (2006
