{"product_id":"if-lions-could-speak-and-paul-park-9781587155086","title":"If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf Lions Could Speak\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection from Paul Park, acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Starbridge Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCoelestis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel of Corax\u003c\/em\u003e. Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference and psychological crisis, regret and reconciliation. It is a marvelous literary labyrinth, a realm of memory palaces, eerie doppelgangers, terrifying theocracies, implosive revelations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere time travel, sordid and ludicrous, becomes emblematic of how all lives are led; here, disease is an index to how the past is rewritten; here, the Other, extravagantly alien or simply alienated, can collapse into the Self with the suddenness of a lethal gunshot. Sometimes sardonically hilarious, sometimes gravely humane, always fiercely shocking, these stories constitute one of the finest bodies of short fiction by any contemporary SF writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paul Park's short stories are subtle, blunt, funny, distressing, strange, true--all these qualities, often all at once--they are like those dreams or nightmares that seem to plumb right to the meaning of things. In other words, beautiful fiction.\" --Kim Stanley Robinson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Genre writing is both a liberation and a confinement. If those who don't read science fiction could discover Paul Park, they would find a writer as complex, as skillful, as ambitious and as many-faceted as any they will find under any rubric. I hope this collection will help them discover him. The rest of us can simply open and enjoy.\" --John Crowley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paul Park does not remind us of James Sallis or Marcel Proust; the mark of genius is that it never makes us recall anyone else, not even earlier selves.\" --Gene Wolfe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587155087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587155086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Borgo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.20w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2002 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2003 pg. 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2002","brand":"Paul Park","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623273967871,"sku":"9781587155086","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-lions-could-speak-and-paul-park-9781587155086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}