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A gem of literate dark fantasy, concisely illustrating the power, both light and dark, of words and meaning
starred review, Publisher's Weekly, 24 May 1999 |
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As befitting a novel so concerned with the magic of words, Cisco has handcrafted each sentence with meticulous care ... In his long dark coat and high collar, the bespectacled Holy-Book-toting Divinity Student resembles a neurasthenic Clint Eastwood drifer, a linguistic bounty-hunter whose prey is not a man but an enlightenment beyond logic
Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's SF Magazine |
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The Divinity Student is a festival of unrealities, an entrancing body of hallucinations mutilated with surgical precision by a masterful literary maniac
Thomas Ligotti |
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Winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.
Struck by lightning, cut open and stuffed full of documents, the Divinity Student is released from the seminary and sent on a quest to the desert-bound city of San Veneficio, there to work for an order of word-finders. More than a dictionary architect and less than honest, the Divinity Student's boss soon has him searching for forbidden words in the brains of corpses. Butchers and beautiful women surround the Divinity Student as he searches for his own identity in the identity of the dead.
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