Stardust - Softcover

Gaiman, Neil

4.1

453,338 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8496940888 ISBN 13: 9788496940888

Publisher: Roca Editorial, 2013

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Gaiman, author of a Neverwhere and the graphic novel series "The Sandman," has created an original and well-written fairy tale. Young Tristran Thorn has grown up in the isolated village of Wall, on the edge of the realm of Faerie. When Tristran and the lovely Victoria see a falling star during the special market fair, Victoria impulsively offers him his heart's desire if he will retrieve the star for her. Tristran crosses the border into Faerie and encounters witches, unicorns, and other strange creatures. Library Journal Movie features: Sienna Miller, Rupert Everett, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter O'Toole.

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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:

"[A] beautiful book, and most of all, perfect for all ages."--Desicritics.org on STARDUST

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

"A wonderful tale . . . mythic."--Denise Hamilton, Romantic Times BOOKclub

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

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

"Strange...marvelous...Stardust takes us back to a time when the world was more magical, and, real or not, that world is a charming place."--Philadelphia Inquirer

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

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

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

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

"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)

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

"Marvelous adventures . . . magical and fun."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

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

"Delightful...a strange yet wonderful story."--Grand Rapids Press

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

Strange...marvelous...Stardust takes us back to a time when the world was more magical, and, real or not, that world is a charming place. --Philadelphia Inquirer"

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

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

A charming comic romance. --Dayton Daily News"

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

Delightful...a strange yet wonderful story. --Grand Rapids Press"

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

Marvelous adventures . . . magical and fun. --Cleveland Plain Dealer"

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

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)"

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

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

A wonderful tale . . . mythic. --Denise Hamilton, Romantic Times BOOKclub"

[A] beautiful book, and most of all, perfect for all ages. --Desicritics.org on STARDUST"

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