Forests of the Heart

Awards:   Short-listed for Nebula Awards 2000
Author:   Charles De Lint
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
ISBN:  

9780312875688


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   11 August 2001
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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  • Short-listed for Nebula Awards 2000

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"In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the Native tribes. Now generations have passed, and the Irish have made homes in the new land, but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets. Gathering in the city shadows, they bide their time and dream of power. As their dreams grow harder, darker, fiercer, so do the Gentry themselves--appearing, to those with the sight to see them, as hard and dangerous men, invariably dressed in black. Bettina can see the Gentry, and knows them for what they are. Part Indian, part Mexican, she was raised by her grandmother to understand the spirit world. Now she lives in Kellygnow, a massive old house run as an arts colony on the outskirts of Newford, a world away from the Southwestern desert of her youth. Outsider her nighttime window, she often spies the dark men, squatting in the snow, smoking, brooding, waiting. She calls them los lobos, the wolves, and stays clear of them--until the night one follows her to the woods, and takes her hand.... Ellie, an independent young sculptor, is another with magic in her blood, but she refuses to believe it, even though she, too, sees the dark men. A strange old woman has summoned Ellie to Kellygnow to create a mask for her based on an ancient Celtic artifact. It is the mask of the mythic Summer King--another thing Ellie does not believe in. Yet lack of belief won't dim the power of the mast, or its dreadful intent. Donal, Ellie's former lover, comes from an Irish family and knows the truth at the heart of the old myths. He thinks he can use the mask and the ""hard men"" for his own purposes. And Donal's sister, Miki, a punk accordion player, stands on the other side of the Gentry's battle with the Native spirits of the land. She knows that more than her brother's soul is at stake. All of Newford is threatened, human and mythic beings alike. Once again Charles de Lint weaves the mythic traditions of many cultures into a seamless cloth, bringing folklore, music, and unforgettable characters to life on modern city streets."

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Author:   Charles De Lint
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780312875688


ISBN 10:   0312875681
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   11 August 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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De Lint is a romantic; he believes in the great things, faith, hope, and charity (especially if love is included in the last), but he also believes in the power of magic--or at least the magic of fiction--to open our eyes to a larger world. -- Edmonton Journal <br><br> De Lint is a master of the modern urban folktale. -- The Denver Post <br><br> 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 <br><br> De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious. -- Toronto Globe and Mail <br>


De Lint is a romantic; he believes in the great things, faith, hope, and charity (especially if love is included in the last), but he also believes in the power of magic--or at least the magic of fiction--to open our eyes to a larger world. -- Edmonton Journal <br> De Lint is a master of the modern urban folktale. -- The Denver Post <br> 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 <br> De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious. -- Toronto Globe and Mail <br>


De Lint is a romantic; he believes in the great things, faith, hope, and charity (especially if love is included in the last), but he also believes in the power of magic--or at least the magic of fiction--to open our eyes to a larger world. -- Edmonton Journal De Lint is a master of the modern urban folktale. -- The Denver Post 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 De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious. -- Toronto Globe and Mail


Author Information

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.

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