Neverwhere

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"There are worlds beneath your feet, lurkers behind the stairs, and shapes that wait just the other side of boarded doorways, which you have only glimpsed in dreams. After reading Neverwhere, you will never again walk past the shadowy places of the modern world with the same foolish confidence. Sometimes magic hides, but Gaiman, one of the principal fantasists of our era, is very, very good at finding it." —7ad Williams "I didn't ever want this book to end Hunter, Islington, Door—these characters are part of my life now. I see them when I turn corners/' —Tori Amos "A delirious, dream-like trip, a work of imaginative virtuosity—an eye-popping Alice in Wonderland for the new millennium." —Mark Frost "Gaiman's characters could have been conjured out of a Dickens fever dream—I can't wait for the next one." —Christopher Moore "Gaiman is a master, and his vast roomy stories, fiiled with every possible shade of feeling, are unlike anyone else's."—PeterStraub "[Gaiman] is, sim-ply put, a... Tovább

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"There are worlds beneath your feet, lurkers behind the stairs, and shapes that wait just the other side of boarded doorways, which you have only glimpsed in dreams. After reading Neverwhere, you will never again walk past the shadowy places of the modern world with the same foolish confidence. Sometimes magic hides, but Gaiman, one of the principal fantasists of our era, is very, very good at finding it." —7ad Williams "I didn't ever want this book to end Hunter, Islington, Door—these characters are part of my life now. I see them when I turn corners/' —Tori Amos "A delirious, dream-like trip, a work of imaginative virtuosity—an eye-popping Alice in Wonderland for the new millennium." —Mark Frost "Gaiman's characters could have been conjured out of a Dickens fever dream—I can't wait for the next one." —Christopher Moore "Gaiman is a master, and his vast roomy stories, fiiled with every possible shade of feeling, are unlike anyone else's."—PeterStraub "[Gaiman] is, sim-ply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any média." — Stephen King "Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like somé demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, induding all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix." —Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman is one of the most influential creative minds of our times. The author of the darkly hip and wildly popular graphic növel series The Sandman—with more than seven millión copies in print—his work is haunting and sophisticated. With a huge follow-ing that indudes everyone from Stephen King to Norman Mailer, Gaiman's creations blend archetypal myths and unforgettable char-acters in a way that has critics alluding to his "brilliance" and "end-less creativity" (Los Angeles Times Magaziné). Now, with NEVERWHERE, Neil Gaiman delivers his long-awaited first solo növel.
NEVERWHERE
Richárd Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancée. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.
Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richárd Mayhew has been erased from his world. His
lord rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and dark-ness—to a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richárd rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discov-er the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richárd Mayhew must now jóin the Lady Door's entourage in their determined—and possibly fatal—quest.
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For the dread journey ever-downward—through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time—is Richard's final hope, his last road back to a "reál" world thai is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.
If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that feli far short of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut növel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.
Neil Gaiman is the coeditor, with Ed Kramer, of The Sandman Book of Dreams, the coauthor, with Terry Pratchett, of the növel Good Omens, and the author of a small press story collection enti-tled Angels & Visitations. He is the winner of four Eisner Awards and a World Fantasy Award, and is the creator and author of the BBC series entitled "Neverwhere," which inspired this növel. Born in Portchester, England, he now lives in Minnesota where he is at work on a new novel. Vissza