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Dreams and Shadows

Audiobook
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1 of 1 copy available

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill—part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William S. Burroughs—that charts the lives of two boys from their star-crossed childhood in the realm of magic and mystery to their anguished adulthoods

There is another world than our own—one no closer than a kiss and one no further than our nightmares—where all the stuff of which dreams are made is real and magic is just a step away. But once you see that world, you will never be the same.

Dreams and Shadows takes us beyond this veil. Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, and Colby, meanwhile, cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish. But while Ewan and Colby left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies argue metaphysics with foul-mouthed wizards, and monsters in the shadows feed on fear, you can never outrun your fate.

Dreams and Shadows is a stunning and evocative debut about the magic and monsters in our world and in our self.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      A beautiful child named Ewan is stolen from his bed by fairies and replaced with a dreadful changeling who forever resents Ewan's being able to live with the fairies. Colby, neglected and spending his solitary life in the woods, meets a genie and gets his wish to see everything in the world around him. When Colby and Ewan meet, all three lives are linked forever in this dark look at fairies and their interventions in the human world. Narrator Vikas Adam draws on a colorful store of accents and voices for the extensive cast. A few of them are portrayed as raucous and jarring, a style that fits their characters but is a bit grating. Adam maintains the pace as the story alternates with readings from a primer on fairies. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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