Tales of the Quintana Roo
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- Synopsis
- Legends From A Haunted Land... The Quintana Roo is a real and very strange place," writes James Tiptree, Jr., in the preface to this new collection of three talismanic tales of the supernatural. "It is the long, wild easternmost shore of the Yucatan Peninsula, officially but not psychologically part of Mexico. A diary of daily life on its jungly beaches could sometimes be taken for a log of life on an alien planet." During the late 1970s Tiptree-one of the greatest American authors of short imaginative fiction-lived for months on the eerie windswept shore of the Yucata'n, and the true protagonist of his book is neither the Tiptree narrator nor the manifestations of ancient Maya civilization, but rather the Quintana Roo itself as a living, pulsating entity that envelops the reader with an unearthly alien ambience. In these pages Tiptree presents a mysterious numinous milieu in which an emissary from the sea beckons an unwary wayfarer into the realm of dead souls, a warp in time provides a vision of vanished Maya splendour, and a race of insidious subaqueous creatures lures men to their destruction. Visions of wonder, intimations of doom ... Tales of the Quintana Roo is an incantatory collection from a master literary sorcerer.
- Copyright:
- 1986
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 99 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 03/06/08
- Copyrighted By:
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Kim Lingo
- Proofread By:
- David H. Carter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.