Peace

A Fantasy Masterworks Book

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Gene Wolfe: Peace (Paperback, Diane Pub Co)

Paperback, 264 pages

English language

Published by Diane Pub Co.

ISBN:
978-0-7567-8208-5
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5 stars (1 review)

From back cover:

PEACE is the life story of Alden Dennis Weer, an eccentric old man living out his last days and fantasies in an obscure Midwestern town. It is also much more -- an extraordinary combination of the mythic vision of fantasy and the thrilling, disquieting suspense of a mastercrafted ghost story.

PEACE will awaken your dreams -- and put you in touch with a magical reality that lies just below the surface of everyday life.

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Review of 'Peace' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This was one of the first books that taught me about subtext. Who is Alden Weer? Why does his memory work the way it does, going from room to room, calling up vignettes from the past? What is he not saying, in each of the stories he tells? What happens to the main character?

It really took five reads to pick out the threads and figure out that the end of one chapter is referenced only by omission in the next, that the planted oak tree is a gift to Alden and what happened when it fell, what name Vi picked out for the frozen orange juice blend, and how the short story "Changling" is a model for "Peace" in the ways that we are strangers to our own childhood.

Subjects

  • Fantasy - General
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy