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    Valley of the Sugars of Salt
    Valley of the Sugars of Salt
    Valley of the Sugars of Salt
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    Valley of the Sugars of Salt

    By Anna Tambour

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    Tim Thornbourne, successful in business but not in marriage, retreats to the country to grow gourmet and largely forgotten fruit. In time his orchard would become a Mecca for foodies and he, Tim Thornbourne, would be The Man Who Rediscovered the Medlar. But the last thing he expected was for the orchard to become a cooperative venture. Moving and surprising fiction from an author described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as "Rapacious, intelligent and witty".

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherinfinity plus
    Release dateDec 16, 2011
    ISBN9781465962416
    Valley of the Sugars of Salt
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    Anna Tambour

    Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.

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      Valley of the Sugars of Salt - Anna Tambour

      Valley of the Sugars of Salt

      Anna Tambour

      Exuberant Decadence brought into the twenty-first century ... verve, style, and an endless appetite for succulent detail. Rapacious, intelligent and witty.

      —World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer

      infinity plus singles #10

      Published by infinity plus at Smashwords

      www.infinityplus.co.uk/books

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      © Anna Tambour 2003, 2011

      This story also appears in Anna Tambour's collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &.

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      No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means, mechanical, electronic, or otherwise, without first obtaining the permission of the copyright holder.

      The moral right of Anna Tambour to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

      cover image © Alexj972 | Dreamstime.com

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      Valley of the Sugars of Salt

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      This is one of those places where you feel behind your back and roll knuckles against the soreness. Where the truck driver reaches for a sandwich or another pill to stay awake. Where the children sleep pillowed by beach towels and dreams of riding weightless on the waves, or fight with each other out of peevishness.

      It is a place like that flat line woven in the towel, running between banks of monotonous green loops of mile after mile of forest.

      It is a place like most places we see past, for they are not places at all.

      Today, a few hours south of Sydney, in this place distinguishable from the traveller's point of view only as someplace where you are not there yet, the whirling social firmament in which Tim Thornbourne once shined so bright can only be heard whizzing past in dim comet-wisps, but mostly isn't noticed since the highway, no matter how tourist-ridden or long-hauler-loaded it is, is never as busy as this little valley ...

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