Trader charles de lint

Publishers weeklyde lint is a master at world building, at creating the apt image, and at making grippingly suspenseful a story in which the fate of the. He is married toand plays music withmaryann harris. In 2000, his story collection moonlight and vines won the world fantasy award. Fiction, identity psychology, guitar makers, newford imaginary place, guitar makers in fiction, reading levelgrade 7, reading levelgrade 6, reading levelgrade 9, reading levelgrade 8, reading levelgrade 10. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. One morning, a quiet, responsible luthier guitarmaker, leonard trader, wakes up in the body of charming neerdowell johnny devlin. He has a knack for the small details that make up a persons life, and he also captures the varying opinions of his large cast of characters. When a mischievous spirit grants loser johnny devlins wish for someone elses life, luthier max trader. If mulengro was a novel with some intriguing possibilities which didnt work out because the author was still learning his craft, trader showed the author in full possession of the skills of a. Someplace to be flying 19981999 world fantasy award nominee. After reading one of his works or just a few pages of one of his works, i find myself 110 certain that im missing something just out of the corner of my eye. I touched them and they brought back to me some of the deepest, magical and hopeful feelings and memories i have had in my lifetime. Trader is a great book, wellwritten, more approachable than someplace to be flying, and fascinating from beginning to end.

This author of more than seventy adult, young adult, and childrens books has won the world fantasy, aurora, sunburst, and white pine awards, among others. The author has made a name for himself working with magical realism and mythical fiction. In trader, familiar and beloved characters mix with fantastic newcomers. Filled with both shadows and light, this is a beautiful book. Max trader is a master craftsman a maker of guitars, solitary, and quiet. Max trader, a solitary, responsible guitar maker, and johnny devlin, a. And max is even more unassuming than most and therein lies his dilemma. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Soon, poor max, rejected by devlins girlfriend devlin treated her. Renowned as one of the trailblazers of the modern fantasy genre, he is the recipient of the world fantasy, aurora, sunburst, and white pine awards, among others. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope. Max trader, a solitary, responsible guitar maker, and johnny devlin, a chronically unemployed drunk, inexplicably wake up in each others bodies. And stop equating it only with what you find in libraries, galleries, and foreign film festivals.

Max trader is a luthier, an expert crafter of stringed instruments, with his own studio, money in the bank, lots of work, and a comfortable lifeuntil the morning he wakes up in the body of handsome scoundrel johnny devlin. The series was influenced by folklore and myth goodreads. When the two wake up in each others bodies, johnny is interested in keeping his cushy new life while max struggles with the mess johnny left. Primarily a writer of fantasy fiction, he has written widely in the subgenres of urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. His worlds are hauntingly believable, and surprisingly comforting despite or perhaps because of that. A master of urban fantasy returns with one of his finest works. A series of urban fantasymythic fiction books set in the fictional north american city, newford the books include city life urban fantasy and rural life mythic fiction throughout the series. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Trader drew me in and made me care about the characters, and it also gave me something to think about. Jane yolen has written over 300 books, won numerous awards, been given six honorary doctorates in literature, and got to spend a day in a studio with kevin kline while he did voice over for one of her animated stories. Or that the black haired teen walking a few dozen yards ahead just might be a crow girl. Contentsshow category adult or ya adult description trader is set in newford and environs and deals with an instrument maker named max trader who wakes up one morning in somebody elses bodythat of johnny devlin, a.

See the complete newford series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. What is truly important, and what is truly you, when everything is stripped away. Its former inhabitant, johnny devlin, has moved into maxs body and maxs comfortable life, leaving max with no money, no friends, no apartment, and no way to get his own identity back. A man wakes to find his body is no longer his own, and the rest of the story loosely revolves around identity.