Stardust: The Gift Edition - Hardcover

Gaiman, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062200399 ISBN 13: 9780062200396

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2012

Synopsis

"A twisting, wondrous tale full of magic that only Neil Gaiman could have written."
--Chicago Tribune

"Beautiful, memorable . . . A book full of marvels."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Among the wondrous, beautiful, and strange literary offspring conceived by Sandman creator, multi-award winner, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (Anasi Boys, Neverwhere, American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book), his magical 1997 fantasy novel, Stardust, remains a top favorite. An enchanting adult fairy tale about a young man who travels beyond the boundaries of his small village to find a fallen star and win the heart of the woman he loves--the basis for the hit motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Claire Danes, and Robert DeNiro--Gaiman's glorious fable is now available in a special keepsake edition. Here is a gift of Stardust--beautifully packaged, with a special new introduction by the author--that every Neil Gaiman devotee will want to receive.

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Review:

The versatile Neil Gaiman is best known for scripting upmarket graphic novels, most famously the lengthy Sandman cycle. Stardust was a joint project with artist Charles Vess, a short novel of fairyland enriched by at least one sumptuous painting on every page. This edition contains only the (slightly rewritten) text, alas. Gaiman's story looks back to days before commercial genre fantasy, to Lord Dunsany's and Hope Mirrlees's visions of Faerie as a misty country which is at the same time temptingly close and "over the hills and far away". The simple tale is new but has a twice-told familiarity, crafted like a mosaic from many traditional elements. Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian- English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes, and all the rest. Stardust is by turns knowing, poetic, comic and grisly and exudes considerable charm. If only we had those full-colour Vess paintings too. --David Langford

Review:

"His finest work yet...Sometimes sparse, sometimes witty, often lyrical...prose as smooth as 12-year-old scotch."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A wonderful novel . . . A pleasure to read."--Denver Post

"Eminently readable---a charming piece of work."--Washington Post Book World

"A twisting, wondrous tale full of magic that only Neil Gaiman could have written."--Chicago Tribune

"A charming comic romance."--Dayton Daily News

"Thrilling . . . Stardust reads like a mix between L. Frank Baum, the Brothers Grimm, and a Tim Burton movie script."--Dallas Morning News

"Beautiful, memorable . . . A book full of marvels."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"The multitalented author of The Sandman graphic novels and last year's Neverwhere charms again, with a deftly written fantasy adventure tale set in Victorian England and enriched by familiar folk materials."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"[A] tale about love, danger, friendship, magic, and adventure . . . a short novel that delivers big-time satisfaction."--Detroit Free Press

"Sparkling, fresh, and charming. Superb."--Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062200399
• ISBN 13: 9780062200396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304