So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Deeply rooted in British Isles folk traditions and folk music, Moonwise is like nothing else in literature. In a work that’s less of a novel than one long lyric prose poem, Gilman takes us between worlds, explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, and gives us a quest like none other. If James Joyce, Ursula K. leGuin and Neil Gaiman had collaborated on a novel about Narnia, the result might have been something like Moonwise. Never a quick read, but a deeply rewarding one, this is a book that demands - and deserves - your full attention.
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Moonwise
ddraig ddu, November 12, 2008
Deeply rooted in British Isles folk traditions and folk music, Moonwise is like nothing else in literature. In a work that’s less of a novel than one long lyric prose poem, Gilman takes us between worlds, explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, and gives us a quest like none other. If James Joyce, Ursula K. leGuin and Neil Gaiman had collaborated on a novel about Narnia, the result might have been something like Moonwise. Never a quick read, but a deeply rewarding one, this is a book that demands - and deserves - your full attention.