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Published by Doubleday
May, 1988
Finalist 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist 1989 Crawford Award for First Fantasy
Deserted Cities of the Heart
Deserted Cities of the Heart is currently out of print.
The first three chapters of the novel appeared, in slightly different
form, as the following short stories (available to read or download
on the Fiction Liberation Front):
Quotes and Reviews
"With surpassing skill, Shiner creates a
milieu of corruption, decay, and ultimate redemption—populated with a cast worthy
of Robert Stone. This savagely written novel is a total original."
—James Ellroy, author of LA Confidential
"[Shiner's] narrative never flinches. It moves
with precision from one point of view to another, breathing warmth and life into all the
primary players—even the guy from Rolling Stone. The dialogue, especially among
the central characters, is so convincing that their genuineness seems beyond question. I have
never seen the pacing, the mood, the psychological intensity of individual scenes drawn
any better than this."
—Richard Grant, Washington Post Book World
"It is both a taut political thriller and a
transcendent apocalyptic fantasy...Shiner's prose is tight and controlled and he keeps
the pace revved high...Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the novel is its sense
of hopefulness. Full of violence and set at the beginning of the end of the world as we
know it, Deserted Cities of the Heart nevertheless leaves the reader with the
liberating notion that, even though history endlessly repeats itself, there may come a
better time when guns and bullets do not matter."
—Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle
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