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    The Beyond

    By Jeffrey Ford

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    The gripping final volume of the Well-Built City Trilogy

    The ruins of the Well-Built City and the village of Wenau are not all the world has to offer—there is also the Beyond, a dark land between life and death, populated by flying demons, restless ghosts, invisible terrors, and ravenous trees. Cast out by the people of Wenau after finding a cure for their sickness, former physiognomist Cley sets out to brave the dark mountains and seas of the Beyond in order to find the woman he doomed on his quest to destroy the Well-Built City. As Cley journeys deeper into the unknown, he is accompanied by an invisible companion—the demon Misrix, who is searching for his own humanity.
     
    The final episode in Jeffrey Ford’s Kafkaesque Well-Built City Trilogy, The Beyond fleshes out Ford’s world further than ever before.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781453294048
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    Jeffrey Ford

    Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, the Edgar Award–winning The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, and The Twilight Pariah, and his collections include The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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      One of the things I've really enjoyed about Ford's Well-Built City trilogy is that every book is completely different from the rest. This concluding part has me thinking about Kafka -again- but also Michael Ende. Becuase Ford goes all out here, taking it further than in the first two books, letting Cley travel from weird isolated environment to weird isolated environment, bothering much less with world-building than situation and striking imagery. The use of objects loaded with meaning and symbolism used throughout the series is taken further in The Beyond, and it works. It creates a sense of mystery that puzzles without excluding.At the same time the cast is cut back to a minimum here, a lot of the book dealing with just Cley and Wood the dog in the wilderness of the Beyond. It's effective and captivating to read a fantasy world that actually benefits from feeling small, isolated and fragmented. The opposite tends to be true.The narrative level, about Misrix the demon's dealing with being falsely (?) accused of a crime and through this experience actually consolidating his humanity is just another example of Ford's unusual talent for creating universal moral dilemmas from weird premises (remember the "cure the disease by making everyone a drug addict" problem in Memoranda?).Which is the forte of this whole series. Not just exciting, fun and different, but also profound and moving and engaging in it's own way, dealing with real issues and never resorting to a simple black-white view of things. And the concluding sentences, deeply satisfying in their enigmatic way, actually gave me goosebumps.