The plan was for Barry to publish several stories in this world, but due to problems with the publishers his writing career was cut short and he never wrote again. Published in 1984, Bridge of Birds went on to win the 1985 World Fantasy Award for best novel and also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 1986, followed by The Story of the Stone in 1988 and Eight Skilled Gentlemen in 1990. During Hugharts military service he began to develop his lifelong interest in China that led him to plan a series set in “an Ancient China that never was”, thus the inspiration for Bridge of Birds. it should have been!īarry Hughart, may he rest in peace, served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1960 during the Korean War. The author claims that this is a novel of an ancient China that never was. Once read, its marvels and beauty will not easily fade from the mind. Simply and charmingly told, this is a wry tale, a sly tale, and a story of wisdom delightfully askew.
And it involved them in an ancient crime that still perturbed the serenity of Heaven. The quest led them to a host of truly memorable characters, multiple wonders, incredible adventures-and strange coincidences which were really not coincidences at all. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Which, like any other day, will consist of gossip and giggles.When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. Then she dresses in a plum-blossom patterned tunic with matching skirt and stockings, adds four or five pounds of jewelry, looks in the mirror for any visible sign of humanity and is relieved to find none, checks her makeup to be sure that it has hardened into an immovable mask, sprinkles herself with the Hundred Ingredients Perfume of the Heavenly Spirits who Descended in the Rain Shower, and minces with tiny steps toward the new day.
Then, after being bathed and toweled by her maids, she loosens her hair in the Cascade of Teasing Willows Style, paints her eyebrows in the Distant Mountain Range Style, anoints herself with the Nine Bends of the River Diving-water Perfume, applies rouge, mascara, and eye shadow, and covers the whole works with a good two inches of the Powder of the Nonchalant Approach.
"In the morning a beauty must lie in bed for three or four hours gathering strength for another mighty battle with Nature. “Key Rabbit, allow me to bore you with a comparison of your wife and a beautiful woman," I said.
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