Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection

Charles de Lint

Macmillan, Aug 2, 2003 - Fiction - 416 pages

Welcome to Newford. . . .

Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the grey harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.

Like Mark Helprin's A Winter's Tale and John Crowley's Little, Big, Dreams Underfoot is a must-read book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life.

About the author

Charles de Lint and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection; Book 1 of Newford Series, Charles De Lint; Volume 3 of Newford, Charles De Lint
• Author: Charles de Lint
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2003
• ISBN: 0765306794, 9780765306791
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Fantasy / Urban; Fiction / Magical Realism