Böcker av James Snyder

Short stories for those who don't read them... An aging, ex-musician working inside the incinerator chamber of an old 19th century hotel discovers a locked room that contains a Book of Souls of tenants of the past century. A soldier returning from the Iraq War meets a beautiful and enigmatic girl waging her own military campaign, as darkly terrifying as the one he left behind. The son of a New Orleans mobster hit-man receives a beyond-the-grave message from his once-abusive, now-dead father that changes everything he thought he knew about their lives.A homeless man, collecting cans to survive, finds himself being followed by a stranger he is sure is the reincarnation of Dick Tracy.A woman who has lost her Texas ranchman husband and any further meaning to her life, is suddenly contacted by a young runaway cousin whose parents are also dead, and is now in hot pursuit of her own aimless existence.A young American soldier newly stationed in Cold War Europe encounters a German girl as mysterious as she is beautiful, and, he soon learns, as deadly dangerous as the atomic missiles bunkered into the surrounding pastoral hills, facing east.And other tales...

In this edition of the Artists in Perspective series, James Snyder constructs a collection of essays discussing the work of Bosch with commentary on the controversial aspects of his creations.The Artists in Perspective series presents individual illustrated volumes of interpretive essays on the most significant painters, sculptors, architects, and genres of world arts. Bosch in Perspective takes readers into the life and work of North-Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch. Known as the most enigmatic artist of his time, Bosch was much appreciated and widely imitated in the sixteenth century. Through discussion of his work, this book shares the vast and controversy perspectives surrounding his greatest pieces.