The Book of the Mad (Secret Books of Paradys)
by Tanith Lee
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Author: Tanith LeeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-12-01
ISBN: 0879517999
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Overlook TP
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Book Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
As aptly demonstrated by Tanith Lee, Paradys is a city of many faces. This is evident nowhere more than in "The Book of the Mad," a story that twists both time and space into a compelling, dazzling narrative. In Paradys' eighteenth-century past, the young girl Hilde becomes infatuated with a handsome, egocentric actor who rapes her. In the present-day city of Paradis, the hard-drinking, eccentric artist Leocadia discovers a murder in her studio. And in the future, polluted, ironically named Paradise, the twins Felion and Smara explore a labyrinth of ice left to them by a mysterious uncle and fulfill their daily quota of murders. Three sets of lives converge in madness--shaken by her experience, Hilde is relegated to a cruel insane asylum; Leocadia is pronouced the murderess, acquitted on charges of insanity, and sent to a hospital; Felion and Smara continue their jaunts and murders and consider themselves the only sane inhabitants of mad Paradise--and tangle together into a fascinating story. Certain symbols consistently emerge from the flow: the color orange is a definitive motif, as is the figure of the penguin. "The Book of the Mad" requires more than one reading to fully grasp how all three stories tie into each other, as the story is rich and complex, but it is well worth all the reading. Lee's prose brings all three versions of Paradys to vivid life, dark, dazzling, and ultimately fulfilling. All is apportioned as it should be: what each character requires, by their actions, is yielded to them in the end. And the Penguin presides over all. Do not miss this last chapter of the Paradys Tetralogy. Even madness has a purpose--and when the purpose is to delight, Lee fulfills her promise.
Summary of The Book of the Mad (Secret Books of Paradys)
In the final two volumes of the Paradys series, Tanith Lee completes this thrillingly dark and decadent alternate world, the imagined city of Paradys. In The Book of the Dead, the dark atmosphere is charged with hedonism, sexuality and death in eight interlocking short stories. In The Book of the Mad a seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the city--Paradis, Paradys and Paradise. Connected by a labyrinth of ice whose dangers are amplified by the will and emotion of its lunatic travelers, these cities provide the stage for a drama of mythical proportions, setting up a darkly dazzling finish to The Secret Books of Paradys.Literature & Fiction Books
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