Shadow Year

Jeffrey Ford

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Harper Collins
01 March 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy; Dark Fantasy / Grimdark; World Fantasy Award

On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.

There is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.

By: Jeffrey Ford
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780061231537
ISBN 10: 0061231533
Pages: 289
Publication Date: 01 March 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Shadow Year

Superb, heartbreaking, and masterfully written . . . It's proof of Jeffrey Ford's narrative power that, ultimately, the distinction [between real and invented] doesn't much matter. His made-up world trumps ours. --Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Jeffrey Ford

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