- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Kerosina Publications Ltd; New edition edition (December 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0948893370
- ISBN-13: 978-0948893377
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Fourteen of Lucius Shepard's most memorable stories are combined with a previously unanthologized novella, Radiant Green Star, to form a stunning sci-fi collection. In the Nebula Award–winning title story, a poor Honduran hunter is coerced into tracking the forbidden black jaguar of Barrio Carolina.
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Shepard seems to know instinctively what too many writers learn only after years of frustration . . . Great storytelling requires great stories AND great writing, substance and style in balance. —Orson Scott Card
ALL of the stories in THE JAGUAR HUNTER are fun to read, but several of them . . . rise toward the Keatsian beauty and truth of the long-enduring. —Michael Bishop
Shepard uses a distinctive auctorial voice and a dab hand with plot and characterization to hook and hold the reader. . . . THE JAGUAR HUNTER is essential reading. . . . —Bruce Canwell
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It was his wife's debt to Onofrio Esteves, the appliance dealer, that brought Esteban Caax to town for the first in almost a year. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Never read anything so consistently wistful.,
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Ce commentaire est de: The Jaguar Hunter (Paperback)
This book is introspective without being maudlin, and I findmyself struggling for a better word than "wistful", but alas, no cross-referenced OED at my fingertips. Therefore: I can promise you this, there's not a happy ending in the book, and I found myself at first very disappointed in this growing trend. At some point in the third short story, I realized that he would supply no easy answers, and the converse might prove true: nothing but hard questions from here on. Stories wrapped up neatly, even with the bad guy winning, aren't a possibility for Shepard. Life is like that sometimes, and the choices that lead you to a place you wish you hadn't visited. But, since you're there, take in the scenery and try to pass on a warning to others... This is my first formal introduction to Lucius Shepard; it won't be my last meeting with his work, for sure.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fabulous grab-bag of stories,
By flying-monkey (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Jaguar Hunter (Paperback)
The Jaguar Hunter is still the best introduction to the frustratingly inconsistent work of Lucius Shephard. Shephard is at his best in short stories and some of those in this collection show a real mastery of the form, telling often quite simple moral tales in settings packed dense with strange underpinning imagery and meaning. The collection divides into several different overlapping types: traveller's tales, New England horror, Latin American magic realism, those dealing with the ongoing shadow cast by Nazism, fantasy etc. It is really a matter of taste which you prefer: my own favourites are the title story, which tingles with atmosphere and magical possibility; the two treatments of the legacy of the Third Reich - the terrifying 'Mengele', and the bizarre, menacing 'A Spanish Lesson'; and the magnificent 'R&R'. I like the New England-set tales less, but even they far outdo Stephen King. Shephard's writing has never been better than is these early stories (and also in the underrated novel 'Life During Wartime'); lush but never bloated and often ironic but always moral. I just wish he would find his form again and stop writing yet more vampire novels!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fourteen short stories, including a novella new to print,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Jaguar Hunter (Paperback)
Fourteen short stories, including a novella new to print, provide a fine collection of Lucius Shepard's skills in Jaguar Hunter, and outstanding anthology headed by a Nebula-winning title story. From a war of the future and wind spirits to a woman's end of life, this is filled with diverse plots.
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