Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman

ISBN 10: 0060515228 / ISBN 13: 9780060515225

Published by William Morrow October 2006, 2006

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed by Neil Gaiman with a small heart illustration. Jacket shows slight shelf wear but is wholly in great shape. The book is in Like New condition with only the sligtest signs of handling. Pages have discolored/yellowed some, but are clean and free of writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
• Publisher: William Morrow October 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060515228
• ISBN 13: 9780060515225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Collectible-Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author
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Synopsis

A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works includes a novella featuring the hero from his best-selling American Gods, in a volume that follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light. 150,000 first printing.

From the Back Cover

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . .

In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . .

In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . .

Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams&;and nightmares . . .

In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . .

Such marvelous creations and more&;including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction&;can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.