Green Monkey Dreams

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'I ride this day upon the Worldroad, alone, except for Courage who rides on the pommel of my saddle fluffing his feathers. I did not dream of journeying thus as a child...' This is the unforgettable world of Isobelle Carmody, presented in fourteen stories written over a period of thirteen years. Within it you will find roads of paradox on which an angel might be a torturer, or a princess reject a prince to save a rooster. These are paths travelled by seekers of the difficult deepest truths never found on straight roads; here a boy searches for his true name, a group of pilgrims is led by a song on an ancient journey and a beast discovers hope. Enter this world and you will never again be sure where reality ends and imagination begins, for sometimes the greatest truths can only be told through imagination...From one of Australia's finest writers of fantasy comes a stunning collection of stories full of provocative ideas and haunting images.

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"A deeply unified collection, its stories linked together in complex and complementary ways. It contains humor, lyricism, breathcatching adventure and powerfully idiosyncratic narrative voices . . . the best kind of fantasy writing." --Australian Book Review
"Potent, colorful and moving meditations on the power, and the hazards, of the imagination." --Canberra Times

Author Bio

Isobelle Carmody is best known for her brilliant Obernewtyn Chronicles and for her novel The Gathering. She has written many short stories for both children and adults and was co-editor with Nan McNab of the fairytale anthologies, The Wilful Eye and The Wicked Wood.