Strange Toys

by Patricia Geary

Book Overview

This novel takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and the unknown. Told with the skill of a master storyteller.--MacDonald Harris, author of The Little People.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553268724
• ISBN13: 9780553268720
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stranger Fetishes

Cross-genre books often suffer from people's inability to categories them and slip between the cracks as a result. This seems to be the case with this book, which is one of my favourite novels of all time. I disagree with comments made abut not understanding the ending, it is a nicely paradoxical and subtle ending which leaves the door open to further speculation. For me this is the best book Geary has written, as it epitomises the ability to express truths and real magick in fiction so much more effectively than most authors do in "how to" books on magick and paganism. This book really is a delight and deserves reading sevral times to pick up on all the nuances and to appreciate the flawless spell the author has woven into this masterpiece!

Trippy and fabulous!

One of my all-time favorites! It's truly a shame this is out of print - so glad to see she's writing a new book.

This book deserves a reprint and a wider audience

This is my favourite book of all time. Narrated through a child's eyes initially, it takes you back to the time when magic was real (and if that sounds icky and Disney, it's not.) Later it becomes a little more conventional, charting the development of Pet into a young woman, but it is always haunting. It's sad that there have been no books since from Patricia Geary.

The Geary magic continues

STRANGE TOYS is Patricia Geary's second offering of the poignant, haunting, transcendent "magic realism" that has made her a hit with award judges (this one won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), reviewers at the NEW YORK TIMES and a steady following of fans who manage to find her novels even though both are out of print. Don't miss her first novel, LIVING IN ETHER. Geary's characters are so real you can feel their presence long after you've closed the pages.