Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection

✍ Scribed by de Lint, Charles; Palencar, John Jude

• Book ID: 107496129
• Publisher: Orb Books
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 250 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0765306794

✦ Synopsis

Review

''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_

Product Description

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.