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From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of “Newford” stories
The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love, hate, and, of course magic. Magic in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great buildings, enchantment in the spaces between its people.
In novels like Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and The Mystery of Grace, and in a series of story collections, urban fantasy master Charles de Lint has explored that magic and those spaces, bringing to life a tapestry of people from all walks of life, each looking for a spark of the miraculous to shape their lives and transform their fate.
Here, in the fifth of the story collections, we reencounter old friends such as Jilly, Sophie, and the Crow Girls. We breathe in intimations of the world beyond death, and of magic beyond time. Longtime readers and newcomers alike will find themselves under Charles de Lint’s unique spell.
The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love, hate, and, of course magic. Magic in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great buildings, enchantment in the spaces between its people.
In novels like Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and The Mystery of Grace, and in a series of story collections, urban fantasy master Charles de Lint has explored that magic and those spaces, bringing to life a tapestry of people from all walks of life, each looking for a spark of the miraculous to shape their lives and transform their fate.
Here, in the fifth of the story collections, we reencounter old friends such as Jilly, Sophie, and the Crow Girls. We breathe in intimations of the world beyond death, and of magic beyond time. Longtime readers and newcomers alike will find themselves under Charles de Lint’s unique spell.
About the Author
CHARLES DE LINT lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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This review is from: Muse and Reverie (Hardcover)
Charles de Lint has once more reached out with imagination and creativity to tickle the mind and emotions of his audience. This collection of short stories is just what I needed to brighten my spirits during those house bound winter storm hours.
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so compelling, you just might believe,
By K. Hernandez "DailyReadz - One Great Book Eve... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Muse and Reverie (Hardcover)
Charles de Lint's newest - thirteen lovely little short stories from the master of urban fantasy. de Lint's writing is so compelling that you just might believe. A comic-strip artist working on a strip about a fairy named Diesel, finds said fairy standing on her drawing table and pointing out her mistakes. An artist, lost in the woods for fifteen years, suddenly appears and then disappears again by painting a portal on the wall of a magic cave. Two crow girls get jobs as elves at the mall at Christmastime. Many of the characters in the stories will be familiar to de Lint readers as this collection is set in Newford, his semi-fictional city somewhere in North America. If you like your urban fantasy gentle and whimsical, as opposed to dark and gritty, you owe it to yourself to read something by Charles de Lint. He is one of the authors on my perpetual list; I haven't finished reading his extensive list of published works, and I always keep my eyes open for new books as well.
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super,
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Muse and Reverie (Hardcover)
The thirteen Newford tales all appeared in other collections between 2001 and 2005, but never together. In fact none appeared in the same anthology with several different publishers offering Newford stories as part of various author compilations and one tale (A Crow Girls' Charismas) was an online entry. All are super, size matters as the best shorts are the longer ones; like "The Butter Spirit's Tithe", "Riding Shotgun" and "Da Slockit Light" as the key characters of each come across human and inhuman, which in turn enhances the de Lint twist that feels as if the author places O'Henry and Bret Harte in the Twilight Zone. The best read is "The Hour Before Dawn"; this well written compilation is Charles de Lint at his best as he leaves his fans to Muse and Reverie the impact of placing "The World in a Box".Harriet Klausner 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Feels like a homecoming,
By Karen Bock-Losee - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Muse and Reverie (Hardcover)
Although I'd already read many of these stories in the original publications, I was happy to find them collected in this volume. Visiting Newford through De Lint's writing is always a treat.
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