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Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint

 

Description: ISBN 0765306794 / Author: Charles De Lint / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / A unique collection of 'urban fairytales'. Magicians, hustlers, painters, fiddlers, and ordinary people stumble headfirst into a series of enchanting adventures.

Newest Review: ... treasure is properly returned to them. “They will be wanting it back.” Bramley warns. Preposterous! Absurd! She ... more

 ... thinks, but then... she begins to dream. Jilly’s hand begins to itch. The hand she scratched when leaving Old City with the drum, the hand that she paints with, the one that begins to tremble when she notices a growing discoloration. She is marked now, and only Bramley’s cantankerous, sullen, comical figure of a housekeeper, Goon, and her mystical, musical friend, Meran, can help her now. In the end, the curse must come home, but rather than death or something equally unpleasant, she is cursed with kn...more

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Crowned Review Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint: "Dream True..." (1701 words)
by QuinnElaine - written on 15/12/01 (Very useful, 42 readings)
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In the words of Terri Windling, “The book you hold is neither a novel nor a simple gathering of short stories. Rather, it is a cycle of urban myths and dreams, of passions and sorrows, romance and farce woven together to create a tapestry of interconnected dramas, interconnected lives - the kind of magic to be found at the heart of any city, among any tightly knit community of friends.” No other wording could possible explain more succinctly exactly what this work is in the ordinary view of things. Dreams Underfoot attains this goal so well that it does, in fact, transcend the ordinary. Following a brief and interesting Introduction, we are given ...

 

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