The Black Heart
Introduction by James Morrow. Cover art by Ben Baldwin.
The Black Heart is a collection of Patrick O'Leary's newest stories. Here you will find aliens and apocalypses, God and Satan, witches and geishas, madonnas and mutes, birds and bears, zoos and prisons, weeping robots and knights who work in hardware, pardons and orgasms, men without legs and aliens without hearts. In short, pretty much your standard O'Leary stash...
"Funny and moving... a distinctive new voice in the field." – San Francisco Chronicle
"Zany, serious, unclassifiable and delightful." – Kathleen Ann Goonan
"Luminous and constantly surprising." – Locus
"Read (it) while you still have the mind it is guaranteed to blow." – James Morrow
Contents:
- Introduction: Patrick O'Leary's Muffled Prayers by James Morrow
- Author's Introduction: The Bears in the Moat
- The Cane
- Catching a Dream
- Yo-Yo, Stradivarius & Me
- The Black Heart
- The Dreaming Bird
- The Whole Schmear
- What Mattered Was Sleep
- The Witch’s Hand
- The Verge of a Pucker
- The Me After the Rock
- The Flying Child
- The Wooden Leg
- The Bearing of Light
- The Oldest Man on Earth
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Patrick O'Leary
Patrick O’Leary’s first novel, Door Number Three, was lauded by Publishers Weekly as a best book of the year. His second book, The Gift, was a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoetic Award. O’Leary’s The Impossible Bird was selected as one of Locus’s top novels of the year. He has also published two acclaimed short story collections: Other Voices, Other Doors and The Black Heart. O’Leary lives near Detroit, where he continues to write fiction, and takes part in the prestigious Michigan Writer Series.
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