Master of Miniatures

Shepard, Jim

ISBN 10: 0984414231 / ISBN 13: 9780984414239

Published by Solid Objects, New York, 2010

About this Item

wraps, 51 pp.

Seller Inventory # 106796

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master of Miniatures
• Publisher: Solid Objects, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984414231
• ISBN 13: 9780984414239
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Paperback Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Fiction. As in Nosferatu, with its smartly imagined life of the German film director F. W. Murnau, here Shepard considers the Japanese special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla. And like many of Shepard's stories, MASTER OF MINIATURES limns the intense and alienated world of a focused expert obsessed with his field of endeavor, at a cost to his marriage and children. For Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the fifties, America itself seemed king of the monsters, to be looked at with fear and awe. This is a poignant and important story that seems to me a summation and condensation of many themes that have preoccupied Shepard before. Like a diamond held aloft, each turn of this tale in his deft hand flashes still more light--Ron Hansen.

About the Author

Jim Shepard is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including the collections Like You'd Understand, Anyway; Love and Hydrogen; and Batting Against Castro, as well as the novels Project X and Nosferatu. He has won the Story Prize and been nominated for the National Book Award. He lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Williams College.