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This New & Poisonous Air
| Author: | Adam McOmber |
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BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Blending historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre, Adam McOmber's debut short story collection, This New and Poisonous Air, brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allan Poe to the next generation.
In "The Automatic Garden," a solitary architect from the court at Versailles builds a water-powered pleasure garden; in "There Are No Bodies Such as This," we read a haunted and romantic fiction about the creation of Madame Tussaud's wax museum; in "Fall, Orpheum," a small town movie palace becomes the temple for an entire town's devotion and sacrifice.
McOmber seamlessly blends history, artifice, and desire to create a dream of the past that intertwines with our own notions of modern life.
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