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The Onion Girl
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In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary people work to keep the whole world turning.
At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips—Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story . . . for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.
"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.
"A master storyteller, [de Lint] blends Celtic, Native American, and other cultures into a seamless mythology that resonates with magic and truth." —
"Like great writers of magic realism, [de Lint] writes about people in the world we know, encountering magic as a part of that world. Fairy tales come true, and their magic affects realistic characters full of particular lusts and fears." —
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Dr.Alyssa.Gray
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“Really unique take on dream worlds and Faeries, love the incorporation of Native spirits and animal spirits into some classic fairytale elements. Felt a little bit too long though, and you never really grow to like any of the characters that much, there's a lot of them generally superficial descriptions and the main characters are all kinda whiny or aloof. Really interesting concept and writing, but it was definitely character driven rather than plot driven and that's tough when you don't really connect/like any of them very much.”
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About Charles de Lint
pioneered the urban fantasy genre with critically acclaimed novels and stories set in and around the imaginary modern North American city of Newford:
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, and the collection
, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels are
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