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product_id: 40338742
title: "Emphyrio"
brand: "spatterlight press"
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# Emphyrio

**Brand:** spatterlight press
**Price:** 2303 kr
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- **What is this?** Emphyrio by spatterlight press
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## Customer Reviews

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    Emphyrio, the Truth teller
  

*by S***U on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017*

I first read this book many years ago, but was too self-absorbed to really understand it. It is a mirror, showing - for those willing or needing to see certain truths - how willingly we allow ourselves to be deceived about our true nature's by those who have much to gain in that deception. And how, far too often, when someone comes along and takes the time...makes the effort...to follow his or her deeper instincts to uncover and speak those uncomfortable truths, we turn on the Truth teller. Until, that is, we finally have to listen, and then everything changes. Emphyrio is not an easy read, but it is well worth the effort. And Vance very successfully creates the strange world that feels oddly like home. Enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    One of His Best
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020*

Vance is not only my favorite writer of speculative fiction, he is my favorite writer in, or as my father, an editor, used to say, "practitioner of", the English language.  I will freely admit that he on occasion wrote what appear to be potboilers, and not everything he wrote is of superlative quality;  "Emphyrio", however, is.  Like many of his works, it features a child with a single parent in a society which might seem to a reader too bizarre to exist until  that reader considers its environment, its history, and human natures, and suddenly all is made clear:  Yes, it is bizarre.  It is also reflects precisely human nature.  Amiante Tarvoke is a master woodcarver;  his young son, Ghyl, will become one as well, or so it is planned.  But social, economic, historical, political and personal forces all act to change his destiny.  This is a Bildungsroman, possibly Vance's first, certainly not his last.  It provides us with the elegant precision of expression of his best fantasies, adventure equal to the best in his science fiction, and conjures forth a  peculiarly bittersweet mood throughout.  If you have not read Vance's work before, this is as good a place to start as any.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    True Vance with heart and soul
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014*

I am huge fan of jack Vance and I have read 90% of his vast litany of work.  This slim little book is my favorite of them all - I believe it is the perfect blend of all the things that are so totally Vance (language, irony, humor, exotic locale, unique situations etc) along with the most endearing characters he ever invented and a story with real heart.  I recommend this book to any and all readers - if you know Vance you will love it and if you are new to Vance this book will hook you and lead you to the treasures of Jack Vance.

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