A Peculiar Peril
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Pages
- 656
- Publisher
- FSG Books for Young Readers (Farrar , Straus and Giroux (BYR))
- Series
- The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead #1
- Language
- english
- Release date
- July 7, 2020
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-38835-5
- GTIN
- 9780374388355
- Age rating
- 12+
About
A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award — winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer.
Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion — a veritable cabinet of curiosities — once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables).
Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.