3 books by Peter S. Beagle
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Overview: Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place , when he was only 19 years old. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, which routinely polls as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time, and at least two of his other books (A Fine and Private Place and I See By My Outfit) are considered modern classics.
Genre: Fantasy
The Story of Kao Yu: A Tor.com Original
"The Story of Kao Yu” is a new fantasy short story by the legendary Peter S. Beagle which tells of an ageing judge traveling through rural China and of a criminal he encounters. Of the story, Beagle says it “comes out of a lifelong fascination with Asian legendry – Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian – all drawn from cultures where storytelling, in one form of another, remains a living art. As a young writer I loved everything from Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries to Lafcadio Hearn’s translations of Japanese fairytales and many lesser-known fantasies. Like my story ‘The Tale of Junko and Sayuri,’ ‘The Story of Kao Yu’ is a respectful imitation of an ancient style, and never pretends to be anything else. But I wrote it with great care and love, and I’m still proud of it. “
A Dance for Emilia
Award-winning author Peter S. Beagle presents a deeply personal story of dreams abandoned and recovered, friends loved and lost, and the strength it takes to let go…
Three very different figures dominate the narrative. The first is the narrator, Jacob Holtz, a moderately successful actor who never quite made it to the top. The second is his childhood friend, Sam Kagan, a frustrated dancer forced to settle for the secondhand life of a critic. The third member of this unusual triangle is Emily (Emilia) Rossi, the successful young journalist who falls in love with Sam.
The story begins when Jacob, returning home from an evening performance at Pacific Repertory, receives the news that Sam has died of a previously undisclosed heart ailment. On the long flight home from California to Brooklyn, Jacob reviews his long-standing relationship with Sam and attempts to come to terms with the stark reality of his death. At the funeral, Jacob encounters Emily, and the two establish a common bond that has unexpected consequences. Somehow — through letters, through phone calls, and through the cumulative force of their combined memories — Jacob and Emily invoke Sam’s spirit. To everyone’s amazement, including his own, Sam returns, inhabiting the body of his aging cat, Millamant, a body that affords him a final, posthumous opportunity to dance.
As Jacob tells us, "Nothing in life — nothing even in Shakespeare — prepares you for the experience of opening a can of Whiskas with Bits O’Beef for your closest friend, who’s been dead for two years." Beagle’s account of Sam’s brief return — which, as everyone eventually realizes, violates the natural order of things — is funny, rueful, and poignant, and miraculously avoids the pitfalls of banality and cheap, easy sentiment. As always, Beagle writes about love, loss, and human longing with intelligence, wit, and understated lyricism. Like Sam/Millamant’s triumphant final dance, his prose is animated by an "ardent restraint" that moves the story gracefully along to its satisfying, open-ended conclusion. Like the best of Beagle’s earlier work (The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place), A Dance for Emilia is the real, unadulterated thing, the clear product of one of the most original, deeply humane fantasists of the post-Tolkien era.
A Fine and Private Place
This classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and a testament to the eternal power of love.Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura…and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.
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