Never start a conversation with a brass dragon--it might never end! <br>In another volume of the companion series to A Practical Guide to Dragons, orphaned baby brass dragon Kyani ventures out into the desert to find something to eat, and finds a gnome named Hector instead. Hector is not so sure he wants a chatty, hungry brass dragon following his every move. But several groups ready to go to blows over the marvelous invention Hector guards with his life, he may need the help that only a fun-loving brass dragon can provide.

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By:   R.D. Henham
Imprint:   Mirrorstone
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   314g
ISBN:  

9780786951086

ISBN 10:   0786951087
Series:   Dragonlance: New Adventures
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   February 2009
Audience:   General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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We won't reveal Joe Gould's secret here, but New Yorker readers may already know it from this piece's two-part publication last year. Joe Gould ranked with Max Bodenheim as She definitive Greenwich Village Bohemian during the Twenties, Thirties and Forties. Gould was famous for his enormously unpublished Oral History of Our Time, a nine-million-word contemporary history based upon hearsay, gossip, chatter and overheard conversations. In 1942 Joseph Mitchell decided to do a Profile on Joe Gould for The New Yorker and so engaged him in depth interviews. Joe lived on ketchup and black coffee, slept on subways and benches, wore hidden newspapers to keep warm in winter, and could write for fantastic stretches of time in the public library or on the subway. He amassed his famous Oral History in children's notebooks, writing in bad longhand. After publication of the Profile, Joe became even more famous, as did his history, and he even turned semi-respectable. Meanwhile, Mitchell inadvertently discovered Joe's secret, which he has kept private since Joe's death seven years ago. Fascinating and pathetic as this true story is, one wishes it were richer in spots; the revelation scene is a bit creaky. But it has a definite curio-crank appeal. (Kirkus Reviews)

Gould, ex-Harvard man, down and out, wanders around the 'cafeterias, diners, barrooms and dumps' of Greenwich Village scrounging, bickering, haranguing but above all compiling his mammoth book An Oral History of Our Times. Pynchon or DeLillo might have made a novel out of him, but Mitchell wrote this masterly profile originally for the New Yorker. Can journalism rise to the uncanny level of the atrs? This does. (Kirkus UK)