The Third Bear

The Third Bear

by Jeff VanderMeer
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/03/2024

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Cunningly crafted stories full of wonder and intelligence. VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him.

Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao


Featuring The Situation, a story set in the universe of VanderMeer s bestseller, Borne.


Compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka, contemporary fantasist Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy) continues to amaze with this surreal, innovative, and absurdist gathering of award-winning short fiction. Exotic beasts and improbable travelers roam restlessly through these darkly diverting and finely honed tales.


In 'The Situation,' a beleaguered office worker creates a child-swallowing manta-ray to be used for educational purposes (once described as Dilbert meets Gormenghast). In 'Three Days in a Border Town,' a sharpshooter seeks the truth about her husband in an elusive floating city beyond a far-futur

ISBN:
9781616960155
9781616960155
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-03-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tachyon Publications
Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer recently served as the 2016-2017 Trias Writer-in-Residence for Hobart-William Smith College.

His latest novel is Borne,  which Colson Whitehead called “a thorough marvel.” He is also known for his critically acclaimed NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy from FSG, which won the Shirley Jackson Award and Nebula Award.

The trilogy also prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau” and has been acquired by publishers in 35 other countries, with Paramount Pictures releasing a movie in 2018.

VanderMeer’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic.com, Vulture, Esquire.com, and the Los Angeles Times.

He has taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference, lectured at MIT, Brown, and the Library of Congress, and serves as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp.

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