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Title: The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop ISBN: 1-56858-186-6 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 08 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Never read anything so consistently wistful.
Comment: This book is introspective without being maudlin, and I find
myself struggling for a better word than "wistful", but alas,
no cross-referenced OED at my fingertips.
Therefore: I can promise you this, there's not a happy ending in the book, and I found myself at first very disappointed in this growing trend. At some point in the third short story, I realized that he would supply no easy answers, and the converse might prove true: nothing but hard questions from here on.
Stories wrapped up neatly, even with the bad guy winning, aren't a possibility for Shepard. Life is like that sometimes, and the choices that lead you to a place you wish you hadn't visited. But, since you're there, take in the scenery and try to pass on a warning to others...
This is my first formal introduction to Lucius Shepard; it won't be my last meeting with his work, for sure.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fabulous grab-bag of stories
Comment: The Jaguar Hunter is still the best introduction to the frustratingly inconsistent work of Lucius Shephard. Shephard is at his best in short stories and some of those in this collection show a real mastery of the form, telling often quite simple moral tales in settings packed dense with strange underpinning imagery and meaning.
The collection divides into several different overlapping types: traveller's tales, New England horror, Latin American magic realism, those dealing with the ongoing shadow cast by Nazism, fantasy etc. It is really a matter of taste which you prefer: my own favourites are the title story, which tingles with atmosphere and magical possibility; the two treatments of the legacy of the Third Reich - the terrifying 'Mengele', and the bizarre, menacing 'A Spanish Lesson'; and the magnificent 'R&R'. I like the New England-set tales less, but even they far outdo Stephen King.
Shephard's writing has never been better than is these early stories (and also in the underrated novel 'Life During Wartime'); lush but never bloated and often ironic but always moral. I just wish he would find his form again and stop writing yet more vampire novels!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fourteen short stories, including a novella new to print
Comment: Fourteen short stories, including a novella new to print, provide a fine collection of Lucius Shepard's skills in Jaguar Hunter, and outstanding anthology headed by a Nebula-winning title story. From a war of the future and wind spirits to a woman's end of life, this is filled with diverse plots.
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Title: Beast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard ISBN: 1568581262 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Two Trains Running by Lucius Shepard ISBN: 1930846231 Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: A Handbook of American Prayer: A Novel by Lucius Shepard ISBN: 1568582811 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shepard, Poppy Z. Brite, J. K. Potter ISBN: 1930846142 Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Dread Empire's Fall : The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 038082020X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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