· The Land Across by Gene Wolfe. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , · Recently released in trade paperback format by Tor Books, Wolfe’s novel, The Land Across, is typical Wolfe: a young, possibly unreliable narrator, evocative descriptions, shifting plots that play with expectations, sophisticated incorporation of the political and religious, and beneath it all a perpetual sense of foreboding. · Overview. In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe's engrossing fantasy novel, readers are kept guessing until the very end, and long after. An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have bltadwin.ru: Tom Doherty Associates.
THE LAND ACROSS. by Gene Wolfe. BUY NOW FROM intrigued by a remote and unnamed Balkan country that chooses to make itself extremely difficult to visit—no flights land there, roads turn back on themselves in the mountains, and so the only way in is by train. MORE BY GENE WOLFE. Sci-Fi. HOME FIRES. by Gene Wolfe Sci-Fi. THE BEST OF GENE. In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe's engrossing fantasy novel, readers are kept guessing until the very end, and long after.. An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. The Land Across is my third reading experience with a Gene Wolfe novel. Pirate Freedom and Nightside of the Long Sun were my first two Gene Wolfe experiences, and both left me with an admiration of his immense talent and a challenge as a reader to figure out what those stories were about.
Microreview: The Land Across by Gene Wolfe The Math. Bonuses: +1 For an unusual subgenre for Wolfe to put his oar in that he does fairly well, especially in the Penalties: 1 The two halves of the book really don’t harmonize on a first read. It doesn’t showcase his talents well Nerd. THE LAND ACROSS by Gene Wolfe | Kirkus Reviews. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF Gene Wolfe's novel The Land Across is an unusual combination of a Kafkaesque struggle with inexplicable bureacracy and the witch-hunting horror genre. The narrator Grafton is a young American who has established a career as a travel writer, and for his next destination he has chosen a fictional Eastern European country reputed to be difficult to travel in.
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