Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection

by Charles de Lint, Terri Windling (Introduction)

Overview

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's A Winter's Tale and John Crowley's Little, Big, Dreams Underfoot is a must-read book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765306791
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/02/2003
Series:	Newford Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	401,489
Product dimensions:	8.06(w) x 5.44(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Charles de Lint pioneered 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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	13
	Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair	17
	The Stone Drum	43
	Timeskip	69
	Freewheeling	84
	That Explains Poland	103
	Romano Drom	118
	The Sacred Fire	135
	Winter was Hard	147
	Pity the Monsters	164
	Ghosts of Wind and Shadow	178
	The Conjure Man	208
	Small Deaths	227
	The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep	249
	In the House of My Enemy	269
	But for the Grace Go I	294
	Bridges	310
	Our Lady of the Harbour	326
	Paperjack	366
	Tallulah	398

Editorial Reviews

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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