The Resource An evil guest, Gene wolfe
An evil guest, Gene wolfe
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The item An evil guest, Gene wolfe represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
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- "An Evil Guest is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel in the Lovecraftian tradition with a 1930s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants - and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner. Soldier of Sidon, and his recent, stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of cosmic horror."
- "Set a hundred years in the future. An Evil Guest is a story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious private detective and an even more mysterious and powerful rich man, who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided - perhaps she loves them both. The detective, who is some kind of wizard, helps her to release her inner beauty and become a star overnight. And the rich man is the angel of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong, Money can he an evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said. "That is not dead which can eternal lie.""--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 304 p.
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Isbn
- 9780765321336
- Label
- An evil guest
- Title
- An evil guest
- Statement of responsibility
- Gene wolfe
- Subject
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- trueActors and actresses
- trueScience fiction
- trueConsequences
- trueWizards
- trueYoung women -- Relations with older men
- trueLove triangles
- Actresses -- Fiction
- trueMoney -- Psychological aspects
- trueDetectives
- trueGood and evil
- trueHorror
- Horror tales
- trueNoir fiction
- trueLovers
- trueNear future
- trueFaustian bargains
- trueRich men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "An Evil Guest is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel in the Lovecraftian tradition with a 1930s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants - and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner. Soldier of Sidon, and his recent, stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of cosmic horror."
- "Set a hundred years in the future. An Evil Guest is a story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious private detective and an even more mysterious and powerful rich man, who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided - perhaps she loves them both. The detective, who is some kind of wizard, helps her to release her inner beauty and become a star overnight. And the rich man is the angel of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong, Money can he an evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said. "That is not dead which can eternal lie.""--BOOK JACKET
- Summary
- A tale set a century into the future finds an actress confronting ancient and supernatural forces while struggling to choose between her two lovers, a sorcerer private detective who launches her career and a mysterious man of wealth who appears with her in a play
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- 268084
- Cataloging source
- BT
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- Wolfe, Gene
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Actresses
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- An evil guest, Gene wolfe
- Link
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Control code
- 000042976561
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 304 p.
- Isbn
- 9780765321336
- Label
- An evil guest, Gene wolfe
- Link
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Control code
- 000042976561
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 304 p.
- Isbn
- 9780765321336
Subject
- trueActors and actresses
- Actresses -- Fiction
- trueConsequences
- trueDetectives
- trueFaustian bargains
- trueGood and evil
- trueHorror
- Horror tales
- trueLove triangles
- trueLovers
- trueMoney -- Psychological aspects
- trueNear future
- trueNoir fiction
- trueRich men
- trueScience fiction
- trueWizards
- trueYoung women -- Relations with older men
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