Flight from Neveryon - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553248561 ISBN 13: 9780553248562

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1985

Synopsis

This collection of tales captures the collision between the fantasy world of Neveryon and the realities of life in present-day New York City

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Review

"The Neveryeon series is a major and unclassifiable achievement in contemporary American literature." -- Fredric R. Jameson

"The tales of Neveryeon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." --Washington Post Book World

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"The tales of Nev r on are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." "Washington Post Book World""

"The tales of Neveryon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." "Washington Post Book World""

The tales of Neveryon are postmodern sword-and-sorcery . . . Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and -- above all -- the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature . . . eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining. Washington Post Book World"

Delany continues to surprise and delight . . . [his] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs. The New York Times Book Review"

About the Author

Samuel R. Delany's many prizes include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. Wesleyan has published both his fiction and nonfiction, including Atlantis: three tales (1995), Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (1994), Longer Views: Extended Essays (1996), and Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. The press has also reissued his classic science fiction novels Dhalgren (1996), Trouble on Triton (1996, originally published as Triton), and The Einstein Intersection (1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553248561
• ISBN 13: 9780553248562
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback