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Author / Creator:	Delany, Samuel R.
Uniform title:	Bridge of lost desire
Imprint:	[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©1994.
Description:	291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Return to Nevèrÿon Delany, Samuel R. Return to Nevèrÿon (Series)
Subject:	Fantasy fiction, American. Fantasy fiction, American. Fantasy fiction. Science fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11726556

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ISBN:	0819562785 9780819562784
Notes:	Originally published: Bridge of lost desire. New York : Arbor House, ©1987.
Summary:	In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

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Call Number:	PS3554.E437 B75 1994
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