The Bible Repairman and
Other Stories (2011) is a book I bought more or less on a
misapprehension. I heard that it contained a story about Edward Trelawny, a
linking character between Powers’ The Stress of Her Regard (1989) and Hide
Me Among the Graves (2012). It was only when I started reading it that I
realized that I was already familiar with the tale from Down and Out in Purgatory:
The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017). It had not sunk deep enough
into my long-term memory yet. Every other short story in Repairman was
there as well.
Still, I cannot bring myself to regret the purchase
entirely. It is a smaller, handier volume (sturdy, too) for rereading the tales
therein, and is pre-eminently a good loaner copy. It was only $1.38, with five
bucks shipping, so I am not much out of pocket.
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