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Smoke and Mirrors

Short Fictions and Illusions

Neil Gaiman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Headline Publishing Group

Published:19th Sep '05

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SMOKE AND MIRRORS will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul

A newly repackaged edition of this extraordinary collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction, featuring short story 'Chivalry'.

'A treasure house of story' Stephen King

'A very fine and imaginative writer'
Sunday Times

'Fiction to showcase his mastery of pastiche, his eclecticism and his knack for the juxtaposition of incongruous notions' Independent

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An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A frightened little boy bargains for his life with a very persistent troll. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unsuspecting adoptive family from unimaginable evil . . .

Anything is possible in Neil Gaiman's rich imagination. These tales and much more await in this extraordinary book - stories to dazzle your senses, haunt your dreams and move you to the depths of your soul.

NEIL GAIMAN.
WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

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*** Includes an interview with the author ***

'A very fine and imaginative writer' * The Sunday Times *
'Exuberantly inventive' * Kirkus Reviews *

ISBN: 9780755322831

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 30mm

Weight: 280g

400 pages