2022 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation, Best Novel
In this dazzling new novel evoking Westerns, surrealism, epic fantasy, mythology, and circus extravaganzas, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) has created an incomparable dreamscape of dark comedy, heartbreak, hope, and adventure. Chronicling a lone mans quest in parallel worlds, The Escapement offers the archetypal darkness of Stephen Kings The Gunslinger within the dark whimsy of a childs imagination.
Comic, tragic, and utterly magnificent.
Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
A wild, decadent hybrid of The Dark Tower and Carnivale.
Catherynne M. Valente, author of Deathless
Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of his sons most beloved things: cowboys gone lawless, giants made of stone, downtrodden clowns, ancient battles, symbol storms, and shadowy forces at play.
But the flower the Stranger seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time is running out, as he journeys deeper and deeper into the secret heart of an unforeseen world.
In his most compelling work to date, Lavie Tidhar has delivered a multicolored tapestry of dazzling imagery. The Escapement is an epic, wildly original chronicle of the extraordinary lengths to which one will go for love. This unique, imaginative, and fantastical literary-Western recounts the journey of the Stranger, a lone gunslinger riding through an alternate-reality dreamscape. The Stranger seeks a mythical flower with curative powers, and he is undeterred by symbol-storms, double-crosses, gun battles, a train heist, and a timeless war between archetypes and gods of stone and shadow
With influences as broad as The Phantom Tollbooth, The Stand, Gilgamesh, the Wizard of Oz, Greek and Russian mythology, and more, The Escapement will appeal to a sophisticated e audience of cross-genre authors such as China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Shirley Jackson
World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhars breakout novel Central Station (Tachyon Publications), received the Locus, John Campbell and Neukom Literary Arts Award, and was selected as a best novel of the year by NPR, Kirkus, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the UK Guardian
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