Limekiller! / by Avram Davidson ; edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells ; introductions by Lucius Shepard & Peter S. Beagle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Avram.

Contributor:

Davis, Grania.

Wessells, Henry.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Limekiller, Jack (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Limekiller, Jack (Fictitious character).

British Hidalgo (Imaginary place)--Fiction.

British Hidalgo (Imaginary place).

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Old Earth Books, [2003]

Summary:

The book you hold in your hands is a ticket to the exotic shores of British Hidalgo, a tiny Central American land of jungles and coral reefs, wonderful people and strange customs, strong rum and sunny skies. Collected here for the first time, Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around," welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast. Afloat and ashore, Jack Limekiller, master of the working sailboat Saccharissa, encounters ghosts of the colonial past and monsters far older. The tropical paradise where Avram Davidson lived and wrote in the 1960s no longer exists in our world, but, as Lucius Shepard writes in his introduction, "That place and time resides here in this little book, complete with dialects, recipes, shanties, magic, duppies, pirates, drunkards, tapirs, manatees, pretty girls, a hero or two, and, of course, ghosts. Open its covers and a mist will boil forth, swirling, many-colored, to surround you -- a mist rife with a myriad distinct voices, bursts of idiosyncratic speech, fragments of all-but-forgotten lore, a strange druggy perfume compounded of the smells of shandygaff, jacaranda, brine, palm oil, gasoline fumes, creosote, orange groves..."

Contents:

Bloody man

There beneath the silky tree and whelmed in deeper gulphs than me

Manatte gal, won't you come out tonight

Sleep well of nights

Limekiller at large

Far countrie.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1882968263

9781882968268

OCLC:

53382368