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THE ESCAPEMENT

Lavie Tidhar

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 evocative dreamscape of dark comedy, heartbreak, hope, and adventure. Chronicling a lone man's quest in parallel worlds, The Escapement offers the archetypal darkness of Stephen King's The Gunslinger within the dark whimsy of a child's imagination.

Into the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange parallel reality. But it is easy to lose one's way on an endlessly shifting, unpredicatable landscape. Especially in a place full of bizarre mirror-images of beloved things: lawless heroes, giants made of stone, subjugated clowns, symbol storms, and an endless war between gods and more shadowy forces.

As the Stranger has learned, the Escapement is a dreamscape of deep mysteries, unlikely allies, and unwinnable battles. Yet the flower that he seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time is running out as The Stranger journeys deeper into the secret heart of an unimaginable 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.

Lavie Tidhar (The Bookman; Unholy Land; A Man Lies Dreaming) is the author of the breakout Campbell and Neukom Literary award-winning novel Central Station, which has been translated into ten languages. He has also received the British Science Fiction, Neukom Literary, and World Fantasy awards. Tidhar's recent books include the Arthurian satire By Force Alone, and the graphic novel series, Adler. He is the editor of the Apex Book of World SF series, and he writes a genre fiction column for The Washington Post. Tidhar was born in Israel, grew up on a kibbutz, has lived in South Africa, Laos, and Vanuatu, and currently resides in London.
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Published 2021-09-01 by Tachyon Publications

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"Tidhar's latest offering transports readers to a liminal otherworld of spaghetti Western pastiche. (...) A delightfully cacophonous novel, teeming with character." Read more...

"[The Escapement] feels like a surrealist cartoon co-written by Dr. Seuss and Ray Bradbury featuring explicit “archetypes and serial killing clowns." Read more...

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“Lavie Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own.”