Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1994 by Tor Books.
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.
See how the Newford gang got their start.
I’ve been reading De Lint’s Newford books for a while but never took the trouble to track down #1. I’ve decided to start at the beginning and it was fun to see all the usual characters from other books get introduced for the first time.
I've read this book before, but so long ago hat I barely remembered, but as I read I began to recognize the hazy ghosts that have been haunting my memories that were so dreamlike that I couldn't be sure if they were stories that I've read or just old faded dreams. Reading the stories anew were like meeting old friends, but the stories never fully lost the half dreamlike feeling.
I've read this book before, but so long ago hat I barely remembered, but as I read I began to recognize the hazy ghosts that have been haunting my memories that were so dreamlike that I couldn't be sure if they were stories that I've read or just old faded dreams. Reading the stories anew were like meeting old friends, but the stories never fully lost the half dreamlike feeling.
