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Crow Girls

Charles De Lint

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TRISKELION PUBLISHERS
21 April 2015

Fantasy; Short Stories Fantasy; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Magic; Dark and Gritty

The Crow Girls and their kind, once seen, are impossible to forget. Wild, but curiously childlike; wise and yet playful; existing outside the confines of conventional morality, and yet bringing hope and clarity to everyone whose lives they touch. -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, from her introduction to this book. Charles de Lint's readers have been asking him to put together story collections featuring their favourite Newford characters. The crow girls are among his best-loved characters, so de Lint obliged by gathering their stories all under one roof, so to speak. Some other members of the Newford repertory company show up here, but at the forefront of each story are these two little wild girls with their big personalities. This book features an introduction by Joanne Harris and an afterword by the de Lint.

Cover art by Tara Larsen Chang (www.taralarsenchang.com).

These stories have all been published before. Crow Girls is also available in The Very Best of Charles de Lint and in Moonlight and Vines; Twa Corbies in Moonlight and Vines; The Buffalo Man in Tapping the Dream Tree; and A Crow Girls' Christmas in Muse and Reverie. Make a Joyful Noise, published in a limited edition by Subterranean Press, has not appeared in any of his previous collections. Nobody does urban fantasy better than Charles de Lint. He has a gift for creating engaging, fully realized characters, totally believable dialogue, and a feeling that magic is just around the corner ... He can make you believe 'as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' -Amazon.com Editorial Review De Lint's elegant prose and effective storytelling continue to transform the mundane into the magical at every turn. Highly recommended. -Library Journal, Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. In many hands, the urban fantasy plot involving strange beings just around the corner fails dismally. It does not in the hands of the reliable, the inimitable de Lint ... -Booklist de Lint...clearly has no equal as an urban fantasist and very few equals among fantasists as a folklorist. -BooklistCharles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend-all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better.

- Alice HoffmanCharles de Lint writes like a magician. He draws out the strange inside our own world, weaving stories that feel more real than we are when we read them. He is, simply put, the best.

- Holly BlackUnlike most fantasy writers who deal with battles between ultimate good and evil, de Lint concentrates on smaller, very personal conflicts. Perhaps this is what makes him accessible to the non-fantasy audience as well as the hard-core fans. Perhaps it's just damned fine writing. -Quill & Quire

By: Charles De Lint
Imprint: TRISKELION PUBLISHERS
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9780920623626
ISBN 10: 092062362X
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 21 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who makes his home in Ottawa, Canada. This author of more than seventy adult, young adult, and children's books has won the World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, and White Pine awards, among others. Modern Library's Top 100 Books of the 20th Century poll, voted on by readers, put eight of de Lint's books among the top 100. De Lint is also a poet, artist, songwriter, performer and folklorist, and he writes a monthly book-review column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. For more information, visit his web site at www.charlesdelint.com You can also connect with him at: Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Charles-de-Lint/218001537221 Twitter: twitter.com/#!/cdelint Tumblr: cdelint.tumblr.com/

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Crow Girls

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