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"[Ford's] writing is both powerful and disturbing in the best possible way."--io9 on Jeffrey Ford

"The trilogy [The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond] is simply brilliant and constitutes a modern masterwork of fantasy."--Terri Windling, "Top Twenty Fantasy Novels of 2001" from Year's Best Fantasy & Horror vol. 15

"Unusual and provocative...sometimes shocking, sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes humorous, this collection will please fans of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor. Recommended."--School Library Journal on THE DROWNED LIFE

"The 16 stories in this collection are a perfect introduction to Ford's work and illustrate the vast range of his imagination...If you haven't discovered Ford, it's time you did. His carefully crafted novels and short stories are all top-notch. Grade: A."--Rocky Mountain News

"The Shadow Year captures the totality of a lived period, its actualities and its dreams, its mundane essentials and its odd subjective imperatives; it is a work of episodic beauty and mercurial significance."--Nick Gevers, Locus

"Spooky and hypnotic...Recommended for all public libraries."--Library Journal

"We should be grateful that alongside the firm of Updike, Cheever, Ford & Company there exists, in both fiction and film, an American tradition that depicts the suburbs as places of wonder rather than stultification, discovery rather than predictability."--New York Newsday

"Surreal, unsettling, and more than a little weird. Ford has a rare gift for evoking mood with just a few well-chosen words and for creating living, breathing characters with only a few lines of dialogue."--Booklist

"Ford travels deep into the wild country that is childhood in this novel ...the observations and adventures of these sharp, wayward children provide more than enough depth to be satisfying."--New York Times on THE SHADOW YEAR

"A collection of surreal, melancholy stories dealing with everything from worlds of the drifting dead to drunken tree parties. Ford is the author of the superlative, creepy Well-Built City trilogy and his writing is both powerful and disturbing in the best possible way."--Gawker on THE DROWNED LIFE

Showcasing the talents of this Edgar Award-winning author, this collection of 20 short stories, written expressly for this book, reveals ancient Native American secrets, explores what happens when imagination and memory blur and delves into young love that is divided by more than just family differences. Original. 20,000 first printing.