The Mount

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Book Description: 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st. 141mm x 18mm x 208mm. 242 pages. 0.336. Bookseller Inventory # 9781931520034

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Book Description: Small Beer Press, United States, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 208 x 141 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. * Philip K. Dick Award Winner* Best of the Year: "Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine"* Nominated for the Impac AwardCharley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he's going to have to learn how to be a human being. "I've been a fan of Carol Emshwiller's since the wonderful "Carmen Dog. The Mount" is a terrific novel, at once an adventure story and a meditation on the psychology of freedom and slavery. It's literally haunting (days after finishing it, I still think about all the terrible poetry of the Hoot/Sam relationship) and hypnotic. I'm honored to have gotten an early look at it."--Glen David Gold"Carol Emshwiller's "The Mount" is a wicked book. Like Harlan Ellison's darkest visions, Emshwiller writes in a voice that reminds us of the golden season when speculative fiction was daring and unsettling. Dystopian, weird, comedic as if the Marquis de Sade had joined Monty Python, and ultimately scary, "The Mount "takes us deep into another reality. Our world suddenly seems wrought with terrible ironies and a severe kind of beauty. When we are the mounts, who--or what--is riding us?--Luis Alberto Urrea"We are all Mounts and so should read this book like an instruction manual that could help save our lives. That it is also a beautiful funny novel is the usual bonus you get by reading Carol Emshwiller. She always writes them that way." --Kim Stanley Robinson"This novel is like a tesseract, I started it and thought, ah, I see what she's doing. But then the dimensions unfolded and somehow it ended up being about so much more." --Maureen F. McHugh"The Mount" is so extraordinary as to be unpraiseable by a mortal such as I. I had to keep putting it down because it was so disturbing then picking it up because it was so amazing. A postmodernist would call it The Eros of Hegemony, but I'm no postmodernist. Nearly every sentence is simultaneously hilarious, prophetic, and disturbing. This person needs to be really, really famous." --Paul Ingram, Prairie Lights Bookstore"Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and owners, the served and the serving, this poetic, funny and above all humane novel deserves to be read and cherished as a fundamental fable for our material-minded times."--"Publishers Weekly"Adult/High School - This veteran science-fiction writer is known for original plots and characters, and her latest novel does not disappoint, offering an extraordinary, utterly alien, and thoroughly convincing culture set in the not-too-distant future. Emshwiller brings readers immediately into the action, gradually revealing the takeover of Earth by the Hoots, otherworldly beings with superior intelligence and technology. Humans have become the Hoots' "mounts," and, in the case of the superior Seattle bloodline, valuable racing stock. Most mounts are well off, as the Hoots constantly remind them, and treated kindly by affectionate owners who use punishment poles as rarely as possible. No one agrees more than principal narrator Charley, a privileged young Seattle whose rider-in-training will someday rule the world. The adolescent mount's dream is of bringing honor to his beloved Little Master by becoming a great champion like Beauty, his sire, whose portrait decorates many Hoot walls. When Charley learns that his father now leads the renegade bands called Wilds, he and Little Master flee. This complex and c. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781931520034

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Book Description: Small Beer Pr, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2002. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. As new. Purchased direct from publisher. Unread. Trade Paper. SYNOPSIS Charley is eleven. He s an athlete and very proud of his body. He s got style‹he knows everybody s eyes follow him wherever he goes. But he wants more. He wants to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father before him. He wants to be loved, adored, worshipped. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line far ahead of anyone else, or maybe to be painted in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck‹on top of the world! But Charley isn t a runner, he s a mount. Charley lives in a stable. He belongs to the Hoots. The Hoots are alien invaders who now own the world‹but the humans want it back. Charley hasn t seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out on a mountain somewhere, with the other Free Humans, planning a rebellion. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he s going to have to learn how to be a human being. The Mount is a literary fable for the ages. It s a major science fiction novel, and the strangest coming-of-age story you ll ever read. It s about freedom, loyalty, humanity, and growing up in a world that doesn t belong to you. In a novel that will appeal to both adult and young adult readers, Carol Emshwiller explores the relationships between children and parents, refugees and invaders, and the ruled and the rulers. Nothing, not even Charley, is simple and clear cut in The Mount. Neither side is completely right or wrong, and it will fall to Charley -- and his Hoot rider, Little Master -- to somehow begin fashioning a future where the Hoots and the humans can live together in peace. About the Author Carol Emshwiller is the author of four short story collections, The Start of the End of it All (Winner of the 1991 World Fantasy Award), Verging on the Pertinent, Joy in Our Cause, and Report to the Men's Club, and four novels, Carmen Dog, Ledoyt, Leaping Man Hill, and The Mount. She lives in New York and teaches writing at the New York University continuing education program. In summer she lives in a shack in Bishop, CA. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Like Emshwiller's startlingly perceptive short fiction and her previous novel, Carmen Dog (1990), where women begin to degenerate into animals and animals start evolving upward into womanhood, this novel turns our supposed certainties into beautiful and terrible insights. Writing in skeletal prose from the adolescent point of view of Charley, a boy who dreams of becoming a famous racer (ridden by his alien Little Master, the reptilian? avian? marsupial? Future-Ruler-of-Us-All), Emshwiller picks up human history several generations after a successful Hoot invasion has turned most of humanity into "mounts," bred for speed and beauty and trained with whips and savage bits to do their masters' will. In the mountains, though, a few wild humans lurk, led by Charley's father, plotting to rise up against the Hoots and take back the world they lost. Glimpses of arresting sorrow meld here with teenage dreams and hopes and anguish, shaped subtly with a poet's sure touch into finely crafted characterizations of human-as-not-quite-animal, Hoot-as-not-quite-monster, coming together through heartbreak and abandonment of previously hard-held prejudices. Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and owners, the served and the serving, this poetic, funny and above all humane novel deserves to be read and cherished as a fundamental fable for our material-minded times. Agent, Wendy Weil. (Aug. 1) Forecast: Blurbs from Glen David Gold, Kim Stanley Robinson, Maureen McHugh and Connie Willis, among other big names, will ensure lots of attention for this small press item, which should go quickly into reprint. It's a natural for classroom adoption at the high school or college level. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. School Library Journal Adult/High School-This veteran science-fiction writer is kn. Bookseller Inventory # 190845

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Book Description: Small Beer Pr, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2002. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. As new. Purchased direct from publisher. Unread. Trade Paper. SYNOPSIS Charley is eleven. He s an athlete and very proud of his body. He s got style‹he knows everybody s eyes follow him wherever he goes. But he wants more. He wants to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father before him. He wants to be loved, adored, worshipped. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line far ahead of anyone else, or maybe to be painted in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck‹on top of the world! But Charley isn t a runner, he s a mount. Charley lives in a stable. He belongs to the Hoots. The Hoots are alien invaders who now own the world‹but the humans want it back. Charley hasn t seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out on a mountain somewhere, with the other Free Humans, planning a rebellion. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he s going to have to learn how to be a human being. The Mount is a literary fable for the ages. It s a major science fiction novel, and the strangest coming-of-age story you ll ever read. It s about freedom, loyalty, humanity, and growing up in a world that doesn t belong to you. In a novel that will appeal to both adult and young adult readers, Carol Emshwiller explores the relationships between children and parents, refugees and invaders, and the ruled and the rulers. Nothing, not even Charley, is simple and clear cut in The Mount. Neither side is completely right or wrong, and it will fall to Charley -- and his Hoot rider, Little Master -- to somehow begin fashioning a future where the Hoots and the humans can live together in peace. About the Author Carol Emshwiller is the author of four short story collections, The Start of the End of it All (Winner of the 1991 World Fantasy Award), Verging on the Pertinent, Joy in Our Cause, and Report to the Men's Club, and four novels, Carmen Dog, Ledoyt, Leaping Man Hill, and The Mount. She lives in New York and teaches writing at the New York University continuing education program. In summer she lives in a shack in Bishop, CA. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Like Emshwiller's startlingly perceptive short fiction and her previous novel, Carmen Dog (1990), where women begin to degenerate into animals and animals start evolving upward into womanhood, this novel turns our supposed certainties into beautiful and terrible insights. Writing in skeletal prose from the adolescent point of view of Charley, a boy who dreams of becoming a famous racer (ridden by his alien Little Master, the reptilian? avian? marsupial? Future-Ruler-of-Us-All), Emshwiller picks up human history several generations after a successful Hoot invasion has turned most of humanity into "mounts," bred for speed and beauty and trained with whips and savage bits to do their masters' will. In the mountains, though, a few wild humans lurk, led by Charley's father, plotting to rise up against the Hoots and take back the world they lost. Glimpses of arresting sorrow meld here with teenage dreams and hopes and anguish, shaped subtly with a poet's sure touch into finely crafted characterizations of human-as-not-quite-animal, Hoot-as-not-quite-monster, coming together through heartbreak and abandonment of previously hard-held prejudices. Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and owners, the served and the serving, this poetic, funny and above all humane novel deserves to be read and cherished as a fundamental fable for our material-minded times. Agent, Wendy Weil. (Aug. 1) Forecast: Blurbs from Glen David Gold, Kim Stanley Robinson, Maureen McHugh and Connie Willis, among other big names, will ensure lots of attention for this small press item, which should go quickly into reprint. It's a natural for classroom adoption at the high school or college level. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. School Library Journal Adult/High School-This veteran science-fiction writer is kn. Bookseller Inventory # 190844

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