- Paperback
- Publisher: Ace Books; Reprint edition (Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0441003397
- ISBN-13: 978-0441003396
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 9.9 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,542,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hiding his psychic powers from a paranoid society, Dante Ratkay is forced to act upon a premonition about his own death and delves into his family's forbidden secrets in order to unleash a profound force deep within himself.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was seduced into buying this book at a time when I was feeling particulary hungry for a good read. Resurrection Man did not disappoint. Sean Stewart has written a genre-bending tale about three siblings' reluctant journey towards self-knowledge that skillfully combines elements of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror with downright lyric prose. The language of this book is easily one of its greatest strengths. Stewart's style is at once fluid and precise, impressionistic and razor-fine. The characters are deftly drawn, with Dante and Jet, the two brothers at the story's center, standing out as particularly rich and true. Readers looking for a moving and original fantasy from a skilled storyteller will be well-served by Resurrection Man.
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book on a reccomendation, and read it in one night, literally unable to put it down. The book is marvelous - full of unusual and vivid imagery and well drawn out characters that draw you into this alternate Earth. The author has a knack for tiny touches that add huge amounts of detail to the overall story. A fantastic book, in every sense of the word.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Eerie, compelling, and fascinating
20 July 1999
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book on a reccomendation, and read it in one night, literally unable to put it down. The book is marvelous - full of unusual and vivid imagery and well drawn out characters that draw you into this alternate Earth. The author has a knack for tiny touches that add huge amounts of detail to the overall story. A fantastic book, in every sense of the word.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Rewarding Puzzle
1 Sep 2001
Format:Paperback
The first chapter of this book has to be one of the most incredible I've ever read anywhere. There's a lot that will shock and intrigue readers in this book, even with its modest number of pages; I thought the story was wonderfully packed and layered.
The downside is that this is going to be a tougher book to read and understand than most sf/fantasy/urban fantasy books--Sean Stewart has got a very different Earth here, and only reveals it piece by little piece. A lot is unexplained (this book is almost absent of all "info dumps" so conspicuous in sf/fantasy); most information about the world must be inferred, at the same time Dante is trying to understand the mysteries happening inside him and within his family.
The patient reader will be rewarded--this book is emotionally gripping, imaginative, funny and intelligent, and the quality and intensity never lets up. Once I reached the middle of the book, I lost hours of sleep trying to finish the rest of it in one night because I couldn't put it down. The puzzle pieces do fall into place in the last chapter. The whole book was a unique and incredible experience, unorthodox in a lot of places, which was really part of its strength.
This was the first book I've read by Mr. Stewart, and I'm looking forward to reading his other books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Odd but compelling
20 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
The book starts slowly and requires some work on the reader's part, but the effort is well worth it. One of the joys of this books is the author's slow and subtle presentation of the world he creates -- at first it seems almost exactly like our world, then quite thoroughly different (sinister magic is a large part of it) and finally, not so different after all. The characters are all believable, given the oddity of their existence. The author also is extremely good with descriptions and the ordinariness of much of the phsycial surroundings only serves to heighting the eerie atmosphere. The book combines elements of fantasy and horror but doesn't easily fit into any category.
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