The Dreaming Jewels

by Theodore Sturgeon

2020-12-29 03:28:44

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards"One of the masters of modern science fiction."—The Washington Post Book World Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; hi... Read more
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards

"One of the masters of modern science fiction."—The Washington Post Book World

Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. But he is not safe. For when he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. And it is a difference some people might want to use.

But his difference risks not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a place to call home. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece.

"An intensely written novel and very moving novel of love and retribution."—Washington Star


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Book Details

File size8 X 5.15 X 0.45 in
Print pages224
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date October 5, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780375703737
Theodore Sturgeon (Feb 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than ...

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