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Description
Fiction. HTML: In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he'll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow, and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life..
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Publication
HarperCollins (2008), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 288 pages
Pages
288
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Physical description
288 p.; 4.96 x 0.67 inches
Awards
Locus Award (Nominee — Fantasy Novel — 1999)
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Adult Literature — 1999)
Alex Award (2000)
SF Site Editor's Choice (1999)
Geffen Award (2000)
Media reviews
School Library Journal
While the bones of the story (the hero, the quest, the maiden) are traditional, Gaiman offers a tale that is fresh and original. Though the plot begins with disparate threads, by the end they are all tied together and the picture is complete. The resolution is satisfying and complex, proving that
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Library Journal
This is a refreshingly creative story with appealing characters that manages to put a new twist on traditional fairy-tale themes.
Booklist
Gaiman gently borrows from many fine fantasists--for starters, from Andersen, Tolkien, Macdonald, and, for the framing device, Christina Rossetti in her "Goblin Market" --but produces something sparkling, fresh, and charming, if not exactly new under the sun. Superb.
Kirkus Reviews
a comic romance, reminiscent of James Thurber's fables, in which even throwaway minutiae radiate good-natured inventiveness. There are dozens of fantasy writers around reshaping traditional stories, but none with anything like Gaiman's distinctive wit, warmth, and narrative energy. Wonderful stuff,
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LCC
PS3557.A3519 S73
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ISBN
0061689246 / 9780061689246