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Newford Stories: Crow Girls (2015)

von Charles de Lint

Reihen: Newford Stories (Short Stories)

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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 and Quire. --Provided by publisher.… (mehr)
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I thought his would be a good introduction to the world of Charles de Lint, but either I'm wrong or I don't really like his style. ( )
  Elna_McIntosh | Sep 29, 2021 |
Revisiting Charles de Lint’s stories is always a delight, but I don’t think we can get any more delightfully strange than the Crow Girls, Maida and Zia, so it’s extra wonderful that he collected this small handful of their stories together as a collection. This pair of tousle-haired, rambunctious, and ever-changing characters are some of de Lint’s most intriguing, because while they pop up in many of the Newford stories, their guest-starring roles make them an inevitable set of enigmas. Flying in and out and circling round just enough to either cause trouble or be in on the action, Maida’s and Zia’s inquisitive natures are always an interesting counterpoint (whether in mirth or in surprising age-old wisdom) to Newford’s many other citizens. This small collection contains five stories where they play relatively central roles, and gathered together in this manner, we can maybe discover more about the Crow Girls than when they are scattered randomly throughout other tales - but that’s kind of against their innate nature, so I don’t think that even by the end of this collection we can feel like we know them. They’re ever-changing, ever-entertaining, and ever-inspiring, which is I think the point de Lint is trying to make with this innocent and yet otherworldly pair. They’re not quite driven by regular human emotions, and they take on a certain manner from the crows that name their tribe (and dual natures), and they remind us that the world is never quite what it seems if we’re just willing to see the magic in it - joy and all. ( )
  JaimieRiella | Aug 24, 2021 |
An entire book about the Crow Girls. How much more fun could it get? ( )
  LoriFox | Oct 24, 2020 |
I simply adored this book The Crow girls are quirky characters who will love inside of your heart forever. Simply unforgettable. The story was meaningful and touches your heart. I loved their playful mischievous characters, they couldn't seem to stay out of trouble. I wish there was more pages to tear through, I wish there was a movie by Tim Burton to capture their essence.
Simply adorable, I can't wait to read more from de Lint! ( )
  XoVictoryXo | May 31, 2016 |
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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 and Quire. --Provided by publisher.

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