But Lynch, in The Republic of Thieves, brings another dimension to his witty, ribald, picaresque fantasy epic: A story within a story, pulled off with panache and complexity In this sense, it's not entirely different from other contemporary epic fantasies by George R. In them, a con man named Locke Lamora and his best friend and grifting partner Jean Tannen live in the teeming fictional metropolis of Camorr, which strongly resembles a medieval Italian city-state. His Gentleman Bastard series - 2006's The Lies of Locke Lamora, 2007's Red Seas Under Red Skies, and 2013's The Republic of Thieves, with four more planned - are each sprawling books, both in page-count and scope. Scott Lynch may not be ranked in that elite company quite yet, but it's not for a lack of either talent or ambition. Speculative fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman have been just as apt to stuff stories into stories, often to marvelous effect. In the Western canon alone, everything from The Canterbury Tales to Hamlet to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities has played with the idea of nesting narratives within each other. Stories within stories: It's a structure as old as, well, storytelling itself. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Lies of Locke Lamora Author Scott Lynch
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