Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited
over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a
sea-captain's head in a glass globe intercedes on behalf of abused and
abandoned children. In July of 1915, in Hardin County, Ohio, a boy sees
ghosts. Explore contemporary natural history in a baker's dozen of
exhilarating visions.
Praise for Jeffrey Ford:
Outstanding. . . . Ford uses . . . incongruously lyrical phrases to
infuse the everyday with a nebulous magic.--Publishers Weekly, Best
Books of the Year(Starred Review)
For lovers of the weird and fantastic and lovers of great writing, this
is a treasure trove of disturbing visions, new worlds and fully realized
craft.--Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)
Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and
heart-breakingly poignant, too.--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Jeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew
up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John
Gardner at S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. He's been a college English teacher of
writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of eight
novels including The Girl in the Glass and four short story
collections. He has received the World Fantasy, Nebula, Edgar, and
Shirley Jackson awards. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old
farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields.
