The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 2 - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>EMSHWILLER'S FICTION CUTS A STRAIGHT PATH through the landscape of American literary genres: mystery, speculative fiction, magic realism, western, slipstream, fantasy and, of course, science fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>CAROL EMSHWILLER </strong>sold her first story in 1954. In 2002 she won the <strong>Nebula Award</strong> and <strong>Philip K. Dick Award</strong>. Carol received a second Nebula and the <strong>World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement</strong> in 2005. She was born in 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After serving in the Red Cross during World War II she returned to school and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1949. After marriage to the artist Ed Emshwiller she spent a year studying fine art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France under a Fulbright scholarship. In 1950 the pair toured postwar Europe on a motorcycle before moving to New York City. This is the second and final volume of her collected fiction. The dust jacket portrait is a painting done by Ed Emshwiller in the late 1960s. Carol was the primary female model for his illustrations for books and magazines.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>..". Carol Emshwiller is one of the greatest living writers of fantasy and science fiction." - Michael Dirda, Washington Post ..".Emshwiller is a writer of fierce intellectual honesty and clarity of vision, and when she combines this with the deep empathy and marvelous wit that she seems to have grown more comfortable with in recent years, no one can match her." - Locus<br><br>"Emshwiller is a writer of fierce intellectual honesty and clarity of vision, and when she combines this with the deep empathy and marvelous wit that she seems to have grown more comfortable with in recent years, no one can match her." "Locus" magazine"<br><br>"First and foremost, Emshwiller is a poet with a poet's sensibility, precision, and magic. She revels in the sheer taste and sound of words, she infuses them with an extraordinary vitality and sense of life." "Newsday""<br><br>"First and foremost, Emshwiller is a poet--with a poet's sensibility, precision, and magic. She revels in the sheer taste and sound of words, she infuses them with an extraordinary vitality and sense of life." --"Newsday"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carol Emshwiller has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Pushcart Prize. She has received the Philip K. Dick, Hugo, and Nebula awards for her novels and short stories, which include "Carmen Dog," " Mister Boots," " The Mount," "The Secret City," and" The Start of the End of It All." Her stories have appeared in "McSweeney's," "Omni," " "and" "the "Voice Literary Supplement. "She lives in New York City.
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