Последние издания книг Фред Чаппелл

In the province of Tlemia, where human shadows are powerful commodities, an apprentice shadow thief embarks on an extraordinary adventure.
This stylish, episodic fantasy novel, in the mode of classic Jack Vance, follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. Maestro Astolfo, whose mysterious powers of observation would rival those of Sherlock Holmes, sees Falco's potential and puts him through a grueling series of physical lessons and intellectual tests.

Необычайные приключения похитителя теней и его ученика в мире, где тени - материальны и представляют огромную ценность. Роман состоит из ряда сюжетно связанных новелл и сочетает в себе элементы классического фэнтези в духе Джека Вэнса и детектива а-ля Конан Дойль.

A Southeast Booksellers Association Best Book of the Year

Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to tend to his ailing mother, and clean out his deceased father's workroom. What he discovers there leads him—and the reader—on an unforgettable journey through the secret life of Jess's father, Joe Robert, which culminates in a moment of profound mystery and comedy.

Within the household they share with their mother and uncle in rural North Carolina, Jan, wound mentally taut as a trap, and his retarded sister, Timmie, form a strange but mutually protective partnership. Both children, wise with intimations beyond the shallow comprehension of their elders, are visited with a foreboding sense of fatality. When the family takes on a new member - a young redheaded housekeeper with goals of her own - the deranged equilibrium in their lives erupts at last in a brilliant shower of inevitable but nonetheless stunning events.

Peter Leland, a young minister, inherits his grandparents' farm in the mountains of North Carolina. He and his wife decide it is the perfect place to spend the summer so Peter can finish his book on Dagon, the maimed pagan deity of fertility described in the First Book of Samuel and in Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony, and whom Peter has preached is still worshiped in American culture." But returning to the house of his ancestral Puritan roots, and the place of murky childhood memories as well, strangely affects Peter. He withdraws - from his wife, his writing - increasingly enthralled by a young woman, Mina, the daughter of a tenant farmer. In the riveting sinister action and ultimate deliverance that follow, Dagon brilliantly plays out both the tragedy of impotent human will and the moral discovery of suffering.