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Author:	Neil Gaiman	Format:	Softcover
Publisher:	Dc Comics	ISBN-10:	1563890895
ISBN-13:	9781563890895	Category:	Anthologies
Publication Year:	1993	Sub-Category:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Condition:	Good

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A collection of the Neil Gaiman's wildly popular dream-weaving series THE SANDMAN. This graphic novel collects the fifth major story arc of the SANDMAN series, issues #32 through #37. Barbie, a minor character from THE DOLL'S HOUSE story arc, takes center stage in this exploration of personal and gender identity. Despite her looks, her name, and her ex-husband named Ken, Barbie is no dumb blonde. She's a woman with a vivid imagination--and, until two years ago, a rich dream life, where she was a Princess in a fantasy land menaced by an evil being called the Cuckoo. Now that dream has returned with a vengeance, and the troubles experienced by the dreamland's inhabitants spill over into the waking world...with deadly consequences. A GAME OF YOU inspired both praise and controversy because of its sympathetic depictions of a lesbian couple and a transgendered person.
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Series:	Sandman (Graphic Novels)

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Height:	10.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	11.2 oz.

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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

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The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You

Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch

Book Notes:	The Sandman, Volume 5: A Game of You
Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	1563890895
Publication Date:	1993-09-03
Publisher:	Vertigo

Pages:	192
Height:	0.3900 inches
Width:	6.6100 inches
Weight:	0.7100 pounds

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