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The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
Catherynne M. Valente
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Description for The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
Paperback. Series: Fairyland. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Quite by accident, September has been crowned as Queen of Fairyland - but she inherits a Kingdom in chaos. The magic of a Dodo's egg has brought every King, Queen, or Marquess of Fairyland back to life, each with a fair and good claim on the throne, each with their own schemes and plots and horrible, hilarious, hungry histories. In order to make sense of it all, and to save their friend from a job she doesn't want, A-Through-L and Saturday devise a Royal Race, a Monarckical Marathon, in which every outlandish would-be ... Read more
Quite by accident, September has been crowned as Queen of Fairyland - but she inherits a Kingdom in chaos. The magic of a Dodo's egg has brought every King, Queen, or Marquess of Fairyland back to life, each with a fair and good claim on the throne, each with their own schemes and plots and horrible, hilarious, hungry histories. In order to make sense of it all, and to save their friend from a job she doesn't want, A-Through-L and Saturday devise a Royal Race, a Monarckical Marathon, in which every outlandish would-be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Fairyland
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472112835
SKU
V9781472112835
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About Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has ... Read more
Reviews for The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
American fantasy writing's best kept secret
Damien Walter
Guardian
A mad, toothsome romp of a fairy tale - full of oddments, whimsy and joy
Holly Black Valente is making new myths right now, before our eyes. Don't miss the show
Lev Grossman A glorious balancing act between modernism and the Victorian fairy tale, done with ... Read more
Damien Walter
Guardian
A mad, toothsome romp of a fairy tale - full of oddments, whimsy and joy
Holly Black Valente is making new myths right now, before our eyes. Don't miss the show
Lev Grossman A glorious balancing act between modernism and the Victorian fairy tale, done with ... Read more