Margo Lanagan
First British Edition Gollancz (2006) |
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Black Juice
`And through the silence comes something immense and leisurely, that, sheds the filth of heavens from its dusty wings ...
Whatever it, is, it comes for all of us, ant or angel, lost child in the forest or lady and lord of manners. Tonight it’s come for my nan, and it gathers her up out of the thing that was her self, up out of her own bones into its dark, dirty, soft, soft breast, unfisting her hands from the front of her nightshirt, laying down her remains, moving her on from us like a storm cloud dragging its rain’
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Margo Lanagan’s stories will delight, shock, intrigue, amuse and move you to tears with their dazzling imaginative reach, their dark humour, their subtlety, their humanity and depth of feeling.
After all BLACK JUICE runs through us all.
BLACK JUICE is a book of extraordinary stories - breathtakingly fierce and surprisingly tender, they explore the dark and the light, and pit the frailty of humans against implacable forces. This is landmark fiction.
Black Juice is a book of breathtaking stories that defy boundaries. They are dazzling, ruthless, tender, fierce, unique – eleven deeply moving stories form an exceptional author. This edition contains The Point of Roses, a new, previously unpublished story.
‘Words are a weapon Margo Lanagan wields so lightly that readers barely notice when she cuts them to the heart’ Jon Courtney Grimwood
‘Rich, strange, wonderful and compelling… Margo Lanagan is an enormously talented and skilful writer, with a powerful and original imagination’ Garth Nix
‘Margo Lanagan’s stories shock, scare, and reassure – though not necessarily in that order! She brings fantasy to life and drops it on your front porch, like a memory of the real’ Greg Bear
Nothing short of brilliant’ Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
Every story in this book is a wonder… This is one of the most imaginative and attractive collections of short stories to appear in more than a decade. Lanagan is in a class of her own’ The Weekend Australian
‘Always moody, evocative and original, Black Juice is an intensely imaginative collection from an accomplished and distinctive author’ The Age
I want to go hire a plane and write BLACK JUICE across the sky so people will read these intense, rich, disturbing stories’ John Marsden
`Thought provoking and evocative, these stories are for the discriminating reader’ Voya
`Every selection is strange and startling, a glimpse into weird, wondrous, and sometimes terrifying worlds’ School Library Journal
`From the stunning first, story, these stories are mesmerizing’ Horn Book Magazine
About The Author
Margo Lanagan was born in 1960 and grew up in the Hunter Valley (NSW)
and Melbourne. She travelled a bit, studied history at university in Perth and Sydney and has worked as a kitchen-hand and encyclopedia seller, as well as spending ten years as a freelance book editor. She is now a technical writer as well as a creative one. She lives in Sydney with her partner and their two sons.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Black Juice
Short Stories
(Gollancz,
2006)
Feb 06
Black Juice
by Margo Lanagan
