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Five Autobiographies and a Fiction
Five Autobiographies and a Fiction, the long-awaited new collection from master storyteller Lucius Shepard, is a significant publishing event, a volume equal in every way to such earlier Shepard classics as The Jaguar Hunter and The Dragon Griaule. Its six long stories offer narrative pleasures as diverse and profound as anything to be found in modern imaginative fiction.
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Five Autobiographies and A Fiction, by Lucius Shepard, is a collection of 6 novellas, some of which have been published before. The "autobiographies" are, actually, fictional but they each have an incident or a setting or an event that did occur in Shepard's real life, generally during his very troubled adolescence. The author provides a startlingly frank introduction in which he describes those incidents, but it is not necessary to read that introduction before enjoying the stories. "Ditch Witc
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Lucius Shepard’s new collection Five Autobiographies and a Fiction is required reading for fans of the author. People who have never read anything by Shepard may love it too, but because of the specific nature of this set of stories, it’ll definitely have more impact on readers who are familiar with the author. If that’s you, I’d go as far as saying that this is nothing less than a must-read, because it will dramatically change and enrich your understanding of the author and his works.
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Beautifully written, gritty and nightmarish. Such a shame that Mr. Shepard is no longer around to write more things in his unique style.
The stories present Lucius at his best. The final story is worth the price of the book alone.
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Brief biographies are, like history texts, too organized to be other than orderly misrepresentations of the truth. So when it's written that Lucius Shepard was born in August of 1947 to Lucy and William Shepard in Lynchburg, Virginia, and raised thereafter in Daytona Beach, Florida, it provides a statistical hit and gives you nothing of the difficult childhood from which he frequently attempted to
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