Radiant Days [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Hand (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 12, 2012

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]

Radiant Days is a peerless follow-up to Elizabeth Hand's unforgettable, multiple-starred Illyria.

[Young Adult ]

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.

It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past--and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other's worlds.

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

''Real enchantment is always sought by our sad, starved world and rarely found. Elizabeth Hand's work possesses it in every word.'' --Francesca Lia Block, award-winning author --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

A couple of years after seeing Patti Smith perform, ELIZABETH HAND flunked out of college and became involved in the nascent punk scenes in DC and NYC. From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum; she was eventually readmitted to university to study cultural anthropology and received her BA. She is the author of many novels, including Winterlong, Waking the Moon, Glimmering, Mortal Love, Illyria, and Radiant Days, as well as three collections of stories, including the recent Saffron and Brimstone. Her fiction has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopeoic, Tiptree, and International Horror Guild Awards, and her novels have been chosen as New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. She has also been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship. A regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, she lives with her family on the coast of Maine. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 14 and up
  
• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile (April 12, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670011355
• ISBN-13: 978-0670011353
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A couple of years after seeing Patti Smith perform, Elizabeth Hand flunked out of college and became involved in the nascent punk scenes in DC and NYC. From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum; she was eventually readmitted to university to study cultural anthropology, and received her B.A. She is the author of many novels, including Winterlong, Waking the Moon (Tiptree and Mythopoeic Award-Winner), Glimmering, and Mortal Love, and three collections of stories, including the recent Saffron and Brimstone. Her fiction has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopeoic, Tiptree, and International Horror Guild Awards, and her novels have been chose as New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. She has also been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship. A regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Hand lives with her family on the Maine Coast.