- Hardcover: 408 pages
- Publisher: Triple Tree Pub (December 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0966627229
- ISBN-13: 978-0966627220
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
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Love is the subject of this volume, and the transition from the fantasy of romantic love, to its day-by-day, get-your-hands-dirty type of living love is artfully depicted by these two extraordinary artists. As they so graphically depict, some make the transition more gracefully than others. An extraordinary read.
About the Author
Elizabeth Engstrom has written seven books, including Lizzie Borden, Lizard Wine, When Darkness Loves Us, Black Ambrosia, Word by Word and Nightmare Flower, which received a Bram Stoker nomination for fiction. She has edited three anthologies, and has written over a hundred short stories, articles, and essays. She is coordinator of the Maui Writers Retreat and director of its Department of Continuing Education.
Alan M. Clark, a native of Nashville Tennessee now living in Eugene, Oregon, has been a freelance illustrator since 1984. He has illustrated the fiction of such authors as Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, George Orwell, Manly Wade Wellman, Greg Bear, and Spider Robinson, as well as his own. He has done childrens book illustration as well as illustrations for textbooks of cellular and molecular biology. His awards in the illustration field include the World Fantasy Award, four Chesley Awards, the Deathrealm Award, and the International Horror Guild Critic's Award. As a writer, he has sold short fiction to the anthologies More Phobias, The Book of Dead Things, Imagination Fully Dilated, Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams, Bedlam, and Darkside, and to the magazines Midnight Hour and The Silver Web. As a book designer and publisher, he has produced Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams, edited by Bruce Holland Rogers, and Imagination Fully Dilated Volume II, the Literated Works of Alan M. Clark, edited by Elizabeth Engstrom.
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Definitely Not Kansas, May 19 2000
By Kathryn Mattingly - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Alchemy of Love: A Collaborative Endeavor (Hardcover)
"The Alchemy of Love" by Elizabeth Engstrom and Alan M. Clark is a fascinating collection of stories accompanied by intriguing art work that together, you can never quite stop thinking about. They blend fantasy and reality is such a way that you are not sure when and where imagination takes over from rational thinking. In this book the written word intertwines with the visual picture so intimately you feel you know one by examining the other. It caused me to revisit and reexamine my definition of love on every level. It is more than an easy joy ride of a read with interesting illustrations. Although it is that, it is also like visiting a work of art that allows you to be swallowed up whole and participate in its essence. And what a trip it is. Definitely not Kansas. Not unless you consider that the wicked witch of the west is within each of us to some degree. And perhaps she is. And perhaps our perception of love and hate, hope and despair, are never further apart than our minds perception of what power these emotions hold over us. Each story and work of art suggests exactly that. I have added depth to my reality of what love is - might be - can do - and all because of these two artists who weave their tales much like a spider spins its web. These stories and works of art are interesting, intricate in design, and sometimes even deadly. In several of them I am left feeling like the fly who is caught, sucked in, left stunned. I like that feeling. It isn't one you are likely to forget. "The Alchemy of Love" isn't a book you are likely to forget either. It will change and transform you as only truly great artistry can.
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