Carnivalesque /
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TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2017Description: 282 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781408881392
- 140888139X
- 1632868148
- 9781632868145
- 823/.914 23
- PR6060.O6255 C37 2017
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Calispel Valley Library Adult Fiction | Calispel Valley Library | Book | JORDON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 50610017744728 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't... It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands ... And at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors. There were looping strings of carnival lights leading towards it, and a large sign in mirrored glass reading 'Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors' and the sign reflected the lights in all sorts of magically distorted ways. To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn't.Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out rejoins his parents - leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks.And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town...
"Andy walks into Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors, and then he walks right into the mirror, [becoming] a reflection. Another boy, a boy who is not Andy, goes home with Andy's parents. And the boy who was once Andy is pulled--literally pulled, by the hands, by a girl named Mona--into another world, a carnival world where anything might happen"--Amazon.com.
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Library Journal Review
In the summer of 2016, 14-year-old Dubliner Andy Rackard enters Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors at a traveling carnival. Upon his exit, a different Andy emerges, a sullen reflection of the boy who entered, now trapped in a fun house mirror. The ethereal carnie Mona rescues him and, over time, initiates the rechristened Dany into the mysteries of the Carnies' lore and life. With each revelation about the carnival and its people, Dany more deeply intuits his identity and crucial role in the ancient war between the Carnies and the Dewmen. Ultimately, Dany faces the horrific Captain Mildew, the traitorous Burleigh, and his twin to save the Carnies and his human mother, Eileen, bereft of the beloved boy who disappeared months ago in a hall of mirrors. VERDICT This new work from director/author Jordan is a house of mirrors, reflecting and distorting Celtic fairy tales to reveal new dimensions to timeless stories. Jordan's seductive narratives are unmatched in modern literature, although many will recognize parallels to Oscar Wilde, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Neil Gaiman.-John G. Matthews, Washington State Univ. Libs., Pullman © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of stories, Night in Tunisia , won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, and his subsequent critically acclaimed novels include The Past , Sunrise with Sea Monster , Shade and, most recently, The Drowned Detective . The films he has written and directed have won multiple awards, including an Academy Award ( The Crying Game ), a Golden Bear at Venice ( Michael Collins ), a Silver Bear at Berlin ( The Butcher Boy ) and several BAFTAS ( Mona Lisa and The End of the Affair ). He lives in Dublin.neiljordan.comThere are no comments on this title.