Welcome to Newford. . . .
Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the grey harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.
Like Mark Helprin'sA Winter's Taleand John Crowley'sLittle, Big, Dreams Underfootis a must-read book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life.
Charles de Lintpioneered the urban fantasy genre with critically acclaimed novels and stories set in and around the imaginary modern North American city of Newford:
The Onion Girl,
Moonheart,
The Ivory and the Horn, and the collection
Moonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels are
Mulengro,
Into the Green, and
The Little Country.
In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth. The Phoenix Gazette
Charles de Lint shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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