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WE NEVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER — AMAZING NEW PETER S. BEAGLE STORY COLLECTION, AVAILABLE NOW!

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The Peter S. Beagle fantasy renaissance kicks into high gear in 2009 with the release of this dazzling set of new stories. If you have ever enjoyed anything by Peter, this book will wow you.

Critic and book industry journalist Andrew Wheeler says "Peter S. Beagle's new short story collection is We Never Talk About My Brother, which Tachyon is publishing... It contains nine stories, all from 2007 and 2008 — I'm not sure what happened to suddenly make Beagle so prolific, this far into his career, but I'm certainly not complaining."

Well, what happened is simply that Peter had a whole lot of new stories to tell...and when Peter has a story by the tail (or more to the point, when a story's got him) the results are never short of magic.

Consider Booklist's starred review: "Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Beagle showcases his narrative breadth in this eclectic new collection with nine powerful fantasy tales and a short set of poems based on the famous Unicorn Tapestries. In the title story, one benevolent sibling must somehow stop another from becoming the Angel of Death. 'The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French' explores the significance of identity as a mild-mannered American librarian irrevocably transforms into the last true Frenchman, while the profoundly moving 'King Pelles the Sure' denounces the insanity of war. The most memorable selection is 'The Stickball Witch,' in which a group of Bronx boys playing stickball come face to face with the suspected witch of their neighborhood. Impressively diverse themes, styles and subject matter make this collection addictive."

Or Publishers Weekly's starred review: "The phrase literary fantasy usually voices disdain, as if bona fide fantasy writers avoid all niceties of style and language. Such scornful usage runs aground on the work of Beagle, who knows better than any other contemporary fantasist how to tell a tale in the appropriate tone. So the memory-of-childhood piece, 'Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel' is as wistful as the adult calling it up from the past yet as matter-of-fact as the unsophisticated 10 year old who witnessed its events. The title story, about how the narrator reins in his TV news star younger brother with the power both men possess but only the younger has used, unspools like the oral-history testimony of a yokel who's not so dumb after all. The faux Japanese 'The Tale of Junko and Sayuri' and the faux European 'King Pelles the Sure' each include the right amount of detail to seem to be recovered gems from the folklore of their regions. 'Spook,' which reels around an epic duel fought with bad verse, sounds wonderfully like Kerouac trying to be Steinbeck. If such be literary fantasy — and it is — write on, Mr. Beagle, write on!"

Or this, from librarian/genre journalist Richard Arndt: "Look, if you’ve previously read anything by Beagle, you already know this book is worth the money spent. If you’re a new reader, know this: nobody in the fantasy field today is a better, more wide-ranging or wiser writer than Peter S. Beagle. Not Charles de Lint, who provides a fine introduction to this volume. Not Neil Gaiman, who’s gone out of his way to praise Beagle’s work on his blog. Not J. K. Rowling. Not anybody. You’re never going to be sorry you’ve read any of Peter S. Beagle’s books. You’re never going to be sorry you’ve purchased and read this book. For older readers — Hallelujah! For you newest readers, how I envy you. You’re going to fall in love with these words and stories."

Nine new stories and a moving Unicorn poem cycle by Peter S. Beagle, including two pieces that are being published here for the first time anywhere. Do we really need to say anything else?

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40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE LAST UNICORN — AVAILABLE NOW!

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The Last Unicorn was first published in 1968, and did not set the critical world on fire. Reviewers didn't quite know what to make of a story that was both a modern fairy tale and a parody of same, where epic love, adventure, and sacrifice lived side by side with questing unicorns, wizards named Schmendrick, and toss-off lines like "Have a taco!"

But the readers certainly knew greatness when they saw it, and to date over six million people around the world, in more than 25 languages, have held The Last Unicorn close to their hearts.

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this wonderful fantasy novel, Roc has just put out a new and improved edition with:

• Better cover stock, paper, and binding.


• A beautiful wraparound cover art by Peter's own choice for the task,
  Rebekah Naomi Cox.


• A fully-corrected text that fixes old typos...and restores one-and-a-half sentences that have been accidentally missing from chapter 5 since 1980! (That's right, missing — and we'll give a free copy of this new edition to the first person who correctly spots them. Just email your guesses here.)

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