What is remarkable about Shriek: An Afterword is the way it combines such surreal imagery with intensely human feeling. His vision of Ambergris is passionate, beautiful, complex, terrifying. and beautiful on the next." -Clare Dudman, author of 98 Reasons for Being, on Shriek: An Afterword "Jeff VanderMeer is an extraordinary writer.
It is in turn unsettling, moving and thrilling-with passages of writing that can be dryly funny on one page. I, for one, am listening." -Steve Erickson, author of Our Ecstatic Days and editor of the esteemed literary journal Black Clock, on Shriek: An Afterword "An enthralling book which takes you into the vivid and superbly-realised world of Ambergris. VanderMeer envisions an outlaw literature of shrieks and shouts and a screaming across the sky, worth a thousand polite and respectable mutterings. "Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting-the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris-proves as the light fails to be the finest character of all." -Gene Wolfe on Shriek: An Afterword "There''s a madness in Jeff VanderMeer''s literary eye, and I would be a liar if I didn''t admit it seems intimately familiar. Part academic treatise, part tell-all biography, after this introduction to the Family Shriek, you'll never look at history in quite the same way again. Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice's brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been waiting underground for their chance to mold the future of the city.
An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris-previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed "City of Saints & Madmen"-"Shriek: An Afterword" relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
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