- Paperback: 223 pages
- Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing (Jan 28 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1581822502
- ISBN-13: 978-1581822502
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 17.5 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,683,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Book Description
Is there anything more joyous and life-embracing than the dance? A celebration of movement, an expression of emotions, a glorification of the human form, dance can be a vehicle for romance, emotional healing, self-expression, or even a ritual of seeking rain, abundant harvests, and fertile, happy unions.
The fourteen stories of this unusual anthology are of the dance put to other, darker uses. Here it appears as the means of luring prey, a cold business proposition, a hard-fought competition and aggression, an expression of misogyny, a manifestation of an unhealthy mind and even a pathway to madness. The stories contain strong plot lines and dénouements that are both plausible and satisfying, but the moods they evoke, their settings, and the characters they reveal are refreshingly varied.
Included in this stellar anthology are the following: “In Our Part of the World” by Andrew Kennedy • “Dirty Dancing” by Carole Nelson Douglas • “Changing Partners” by Henry Slesar • “Dancing the Night Away” by Brendan DuBois • “The Trespasser” by Alexandra Whitaker • “Mrs. Website’s Dance” by Ina Bouman • “At the Hop” by Bill and Judy Crider • “The Dance of the Apsara” by Joan Richter • “Death of a Damn Moose” by Barbara Burnett Smith • “Jookin’ and Jivin’ ” by Linda Kerslake • “Dance with Death” by Carmen Iarrera • “The Mechanique Affair” by Ruth Cagin • “You Can Jump” by Mat Coward • “Tango Was Her Life” by John Lutz MYSTERY; COLLECTIONS 6” X 9”, 448 PAGES $14.95
About the Author
TREVANIAN is the best-selling author of The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, Shibumi, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages. He lives in the French Basque mountains.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon Canada
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A bittersweet treasure, Feb 13 2007
By Bachelier ""1004"" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death DAnce (Paperback)
Stories of morbid irony. Trevanian began assembling these from far-flung old friends when he became acutely aware he was dying himself.
That most ridiculous, conspicuously innocent human activity dancing is the theme of these stories by friends of Rodney Whitaker, and each voice is a welcome treasure and introduction to the underappreciated and obscure. A pity, in a better world these writers would be as famous as Trevanian himself, which is perhaps why it was his parting gift to his friends: a final use for the pseudonym that both gave him liberty and become an ironic collar.
Trevanian fans ("the `Others'") tend to be well-read and enjoy the clever pointers to themes of literature and her history in his works. Writers here range from Raymond Carver influenced to demi-monde baroque (although with the patina of Damascus steel).
A bittersweet treasure.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
So Awful There Are No Words........................., Jun 7 2008
By P. Chapin "patchapin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death DAnce (Paperback)
The stories in this last book are so awful, so poorly written or trite in nature or both, that you wish Trevanian had been content to go out with some dignity if nothing else. This book bites, sorry, and there's nothing that will help it. It made me so disgusted with myself for buying it I waited four days after finishing it, thinking I would change my mind about writing the review. However, anyone who has enjoyed the writer's stories deserves to be warned off this garbage collection.
pat chapin
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
