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Gr 9-Up Continuing in the style of "Black Juice" (HarperCollins, 2005), Lanagan presents 10 more tales of life, death, love, and the supernatural. Familiar places and concepts are turned upside down and inside out, and spun into something new and intriguing. "Winkie" takes a child's nursery rhyme and uncovers a dark, nightmarish core. In "A Feather in th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lanagan's (Black Juice, rev. 5/05; White Time, rev. 7/06) ten stories delve into the crevices of nightmare, temptation, and helplessness with a mixture of earthy dialect and inventiveness that makes this collection mesmerizing, sometimes horrifying, and occasionally funny. "A human eye is bigger than the head of a bird like me," one character (a budgie) says. "When it looks at you, it's hard to think straight, for fea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lanagan's (<i>Black Juice</i>, <i>White Time</i>) ten stories delve into the crevices of nightmare, temptation, and helplessness. She ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More