Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

After Many a Summer

Tim Powers
3.97/5 (60 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
After Many a Summer, a magisterial new novella from Tim Powers, borrows its title from a line in Tennyson's famous poem "Tithonus." An elegiac appeal for death on the part of the titular figure from myth, a man who was granted the everlasting life he had originally begged from the gods, only to have their gift turn to ashes in his mouth, only, as Tennyson wrote, to become someone whom "only cruel immortality consumes." What does this have to do with homelessness, troubled movie production companies, kidnapped heiresses, prophecies delivered by taxidermized heads, and a Los Angeles County rendered with such masterful, lived in, bone deep attention to physical detail that to read the opening is to feel the heat from cracked asphalt rising through your shoes and to taste cheap fortified wine grown warm in the sun cloying your tongue? Can all these seemingly disparate things be connected, cohered, clarified? This is a Tim Powers story. Of course they can. Conrad is a down on his luck screenwriter who takes a very strange assignment that leads him to encounter a kidnapped heiress after delivering her ransom--a hundred-year-old mummified head fond of cryptic utterances. Nothing goes Conrad's way, though, because nothing, no matter how bizarre, is what it seems.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
88 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Subterranean Press
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1645241246
ISBN13:
9781645241249
kindle Asin:
1645241246

After Many a Summer

Tim Powers
3.97/5 (60 ratings)
Read Download
After Many a Summer, a magisterial new novella from Tim Powers, borrows its title from a line in Tennyson's famous poem "Tithonus." An elegiac appeal for death on the part of the titular figure from myth, a man who was granted the everlasting life he had originally begged from the gods, only to have their gift turn to ashes in his mouth, only, as Tennyson wrote, to become someone whom "only cruel immortality consumes." What does this have to do with homelessness, troubled movie production companies, kidnapped heiresses, prophecies delivered by taxidermized heads, and a Los Angeles County rendered with such masterful, lived in, bone deep attention to physical detail that to read the opening is to feel the heat from cracked asphalt rising through your shoes and to taste cheap fortified wine grown warm in the sun cloying your tongue? Can all these seemingly disparate things be connected, cohered, clarified? This is a Tim Powers story. Of course they can. Conrad is a down on his luck screenwriter who takes a very strange assignment that leads him to encounter a kidnapped heiress after delivering her ransom--a hundred-year-old mummified head fond of cryptic utterances. Nothing goes Conrad's way, though, because nothing, no matter how bizarre, is what it seems.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
88 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Subterranean Press
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1645241246
ISBN13:
9781645241249
kindle Asin:
1645241246

More Books

The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #0.2)

Ben Aaronovitch

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

Doorways in the Sand

Roger Zelazny

To Die in Italbar

Roger Zelazny

The Weapon Shops of Isher

A.E. van Vogt

The Glass Teat

Harlan Ellison

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files, #11; The New Management, #2)

Charles Stross

The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel, Volume 1

Neil Gaiman

Carrion Comfort

Dan Simmons

Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

Charles Stross

Protector (Known Space)

Larry Niven

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

Samit Basu