The Sandman Dream Country by Neil Gaiman GN Book #3


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Author:	Neil Gaiman	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Dc Comics	ISBN-10:	156389016X
ISBN-13:	9781563890161	Subject:	Folklore, Mythology
Publication Year:	1991	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Like New

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A collection of the Neil Gaiman's wildly popular dream-weaving series THE SANDMAN. This graphic novel collects the third story arc in the SANDMAN series, issues #17-#20. Rather than being one continuous narrative, it is a set of tales exploring variations on the same theme: Ideas are both important and extremely powerful; in fact, if they're strong enough, they can do more than merely change one's perception of reality--they can alter reality itself. The four stories are told through four very disparate points of view: a self-involved, blocked contemporary writer, a preaching cat, William Shakespeare, and a suicidal superhero. The third story, concerning the inaugural performance of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and its unusual audience, won the World Fantasy Award for best short story in 1991. It was the first comic book to do so...and the last, as the judges, responding to outrage at the outcome, subsequently disqualified all future comic books as award entrants.
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Series:	Sandman (Graphic Novels)

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Height:	10.3 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	9.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
This exquisite and enchanting volume provides easy entry for newcomers to Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN and to comics. Inside are the dreams of writers, fairies, felines and unemployed immortals, and the World Fantasy Award-winning tale "A MIdsummer-Night's Dream", which spotlights an unusual performance of William Shakespeare's play. Sixth printing. Graphic novel format. Mature readers.
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"Fancy unleashed on rags of moonlight....a top-flight fantasy collection." Kirkus Reviews (07/01/1996) This anthology features stories about The Sandman, DC Comics' best-selling adult graphic novel by Neil Gaiman. Clive Barker wrote the frontispiece (not seen), and singer Tori Amos contributed the afterword. The 18 mainstream writers expand and elaborate the Sandman mythos. Readers don't need a familiarity with the Sandman comic to appreciate these stories. Recommended for short story collections. Breitman Though he won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1991, Gaiman is best known as the writer who transformed the WWII-era DC Comics character the Sandman from a Batman-style detective/vigilante into the much darker Morpheus, aka Dream, the being who presides over the realm of Dreaming. One of seven siblings who represent various states of consciousness Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, Dream and Delirium Morpheus is head of the allegorical family called the Endless. Here, popular fantasy writers expand upon Gaiman's original concepts, with mixed results. Colin Greenland's bittersweet "Masquerade and High Water" and Barbara Hambly's "Each Damp Thing" provide insights into the backstage workings of the Endless. Tad Williams's "The Writer's Child" is a finely crafted story about loyalty and the value of innocence. Weak spots include George Alec Effinger's resurrection of a saccharine Little Nemo for "Seven Nights in Slumberland," Lisa Goldstein's bland "Stronger Than Desire" and B.W. Clough's vignette "The Birth Day." Susanna Clarke's "Stopp't-Clock Yard" and a lyrical meditation on Death by songwriter Tori Amos close the anthology on a strong note; a b&w drawing by Clive Barker opens it on a garish one. Though perhaps most interesting as an example of media-crossover, this collection presents some powerful writing about, and memorable images of, the other reality wherein we while away a third of our lives. (Aug.) Lopate

The Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman GN Book #3

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