Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Strange Toys is a stunningly original and penetrating novel blending the real and unreal, the fantastic and the mundane, in a story of love, power, and the occult that carries one young woman on a difficult and dangerous journey. Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her strange older sister's book of secrets horrors that indeed come true. At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her older sister to wreak vengeance or something else. At thirty, Pet attains strength and power enough to protect her from the present but not from her sister's raging past. With humor, insight, compassion, and unrelenting suspense, Patricia Geary's Strange Toys takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and unknown.
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Patricia Geary teaches at the University of Redlands and is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Living in Ether, Strange Toys, and Guru Cigarettes, and the novella, The Other Canyon. She also practices yoga in Redlands, California, where she lives with her husband, Jack, and son, Denis. Strange Toys is the winner of the 1987 Philip K. Dick Award.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
words cannot describe this book,
By "mcasparian" (South Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strange Toys (Mass Market Paperback)
My copy of "strange toys" is in tatters and held together with tape and staples - I will loan it out to noone as I can't imagine not owning this book - that's how prized it is... This book is surreal and truly magical. Geary triumphantly answers the challege of being an adult and writing in a child's voice - the childhood "Pet" isn't cloying, precocious or cute. Neither is she a powerless victim with nothing interesting to say. She is a real flesh and blood girl. Geary brings her characters to life in ways that must be read to be understood - she makes every scene in her books so real they are almost palpable. Her view of the way the world works - the complicated layers of "reality" that play upon and with each other - make more sense than any other "explanation" I have read anywhere... her stuff leaves "house of leaves" and all others of that ilk in the dust.... Geary is the real stuff without all the added flash and silly bells and whistles... she doesn't need them. Patricia Geary is my favorite author and this is my favorite book in the world. I've worked in plenty of bookstores and recommended her work but sadly it's been unavailable... I've done every search you can in the industry and never been able to find out a thing about her or if she's still writing so when I saw her comment on this page I was overjoyed. I can't wait to read anything she writes and, Ms. Geary, if you come back to Amazon anytime soon, please know that you do, indeed, have a great following of us out here - you are a great talent and we are so excited that we'll get to read more of your work!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book deserves a reprint and a wider audience,
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This review is from: Strange Toys (Mass Market Paperback)
This is my favourite book of all time. Narrated through a child's eyes initially, it takes you back to the time when magic was real (and if that sounds icky and Disney, it's not.) Later it becomes a little more conventional, charting the development of Pet into a young woman, but it is always haunting. It's sad that there have been no books since from Patricia Geary.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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The Geary magic continues,
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STRANGE TOYS is Patricia Geary's second offering of the poignant, haunting, transcendent "magic realism" that has made her a hit with award judges (this one won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), reviewers at the NEW YORK TIMES and a steady following of fans who manage to find her novels even though both are out of print. Don't miss her first novel, LIVING IN ETHER. Geary's characters are so real you can feel their presence long after you've closed the pages.
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