Moonlight & Vines (Vampire Cat)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 061322034X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 115 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Here is enchantment under a street-lamp: the landscape of urban North America as only Charles de Lint can show it. "Blending Lovecraft's imagery, Dunsany's poetry, Carroll's surrealism, and Alice Hoffman's small-town strangeness", wrote Interzone on Dreams Underfoot, de Lint's Newford tales are "a haunting mixture of human warmth and cold inevitability, of lessons learned and prices to be paid".. Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Memory & Dream, Trader, and Someplace to Be Flying, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.Now de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for a third volume of short stories set there, including several never before published in book form
What a find! Todd M. Rohs I'm about 2/3rds of the way through this collection of stories and after most of the tales I think to myself, "That one was my favorite". Thank goodness they are short stories or I'd never be able to put this book down.This is my first book by de Lint, and my first exposure to "urban fantasy". I am delighted. It is almost Twilight Zonish- you feel that some of these things really could happen, and that they could even happen to you. As I've grown older I was moving away from the fantasy genre, but this has reawakened my love of magical possibilites. These are real characters, partially in a world I'm familiar with, touching on worlds . "Five Stars" according to Linda Du Bois. A great collection of short stories by Charles De Lint.. "Too much abuse/too little magic" according to A Customer. What happened between DREAMS UNDERFOOT and MOONLIGHT AND VINES?--the abuse that was so prevalent in IVORY AND HORN has taken over completely. It seems in Newford the only way to discover the magic now is to come from such a crippled and abused background that you can't function in this world anymore. All the stories devolve into subject of the year abuse stories with hints that magic acts as only as a counselor. Add to that mix the titillation of lesbianism from half the stories and one has to wonder where this is going? The magic left Newford because it couldn't take the pain and neither could I.
--Jhana Bach. De Lint crafts his stories with soft edges but indelible images: I can feel a foreign vibe in my apartment, a quivering in the air from Teresa having been there. The pictures in their frames letting out their stomachs and hanging slightly askew once more. The fridge muttering to itself in the kitchen. Charles de Lint succumbs to his fascination with the outsider in all of us, and writes of lonesome goth kids, newbie lesbians, strippers, Gypsies, angels of death and mercy, and even vampires and ghosts in a style that is remarkably refreshing after so much sword-and-bodice formula fantasy.