Moonlight & Vines [Paperback]

Return to Newford

Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novelsMoonheart,Forests of the Heart,The Onion Girl, and many others, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.

In the World Fantasy Award-winningMoonlight and Vines, de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for another volume of stories set there, featuring the intertwined lives of many characters from the novels. Here is enchantment under a streetlamp: the landscape of our lives as only Charles de Lint can show it.

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 collectionMoonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels areMulengro,Into the Green, andThe Little Country.Now in trade paperback, the World Fantasy Award-winning book of Newford tales

De Lint is a romantic; he believes in the great things, faith, hope, and charity (especially if love is included in that last), but he also believes in the power of magicor at least the magic of fictionto open our eyes to a larger world. Edmonton Journal on Moonlight and Vines

What makes de Lint's particular brand of fantasy so catchy is his attention to the ordinary. Like great writers of magic realism, he writes about people in the world we know, encountering magic as part of that world. Booklist on The Onion Girl

De Lint is a romantic, a believer in human potential, and his fiction is populated not only with creatures of myth, but with artists and social workers, musicians and runaways, all creating intentional communities basl£Y