Stories, Like Illnesses Bundle (Hardcover First Edition + Signed Companion Book)

James Elkins

Stories, Like Illnesses Publisher Exclusive!

Includes exclusive SIGNED companion guide only available here: Ideas and Materials for Five Strange Languages

Preorder the next standalone book in James Elkins’ astonishing multi-volume novel Five Strange Languages, along with the author’s full-color, 120-page companion guide to the novel, which is only available direct from the publisher.

Stories, Like Illnesses is the ideal entry point to Elkins’ sprawling modern day epic, being set in time both before and after the events of previously published volumes (Weak in Comparison to Dreams and A Short Introduction to Anneliese).

Elkins began writing the guide Ideas and Materials twenty years ago, when the novel was just getting started. Meant to be read alongside the novel, both as a guide and an invitation to explore the book’s themes and meanings, it sets out the contents of each of the three books that have appeared so far—Stories, Like Illnesses; A Short Introduction to Anneliese; and Weak in Comparison to Dreams—and it explores what they say about memory, aging, love, and many other topics.

If you’ve already preordered Stories, Like Illnesses you can order the stand alone companion Ideas and Materials for Five Strange Language here.