The Good Fairies Of New York: With an introduction by Neil Gaiman
By (Author) Martin Millar
Little, Brown Book Group
Piatkus Books
1st March 2011
10th January 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
288
Width 200mm, Height 130mm, Spine 18mm
236g
Morag and Heather, two eighteen-inch fairies with swords, green kilts and badly dyed hair fly through the window of the worst violinist in New York, an overweight and antisocial type named Dinnie, and vomit on his carpet.
Who they are, how they came to New York and what this has to do with the lovely Kerry - who lives across the street, and has Crohn's Disease, and is making a flower alphabet - and what this has to do with the other fairies (of all nationalities) of New York, not to mention the poor repressed fairies of Britain, is the subject of this book. It has a war in it, and a most unusual production of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Johnny Thunders' New York Dolls guitar solos. What more could anyone desire from a bookRead it now, and then make your friends buy their own copies. Youll thank me someday.Neil Gaiman
The funniest writer in Britain today."GQ
"Millar offers fiercely funny (and often inebriated) Scottish fairies, a poignant love story, cultural conflicts, and the plight of the homeless in this fey urban fantasy."Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
Undeniably brilliant."The Guardian "(UK)
"Read it now, and then make your friends buy their own copies. You'll thank me someday."--Neil Gaiman
"The funniest writer in Britain today."--"GQ
""Millar offers fiercely funny (and often inebriated) Scottish fairies, a poignant love story, cultural conflicts, and the plight of the homeless in this fey urban fantasy."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Undeniably brilliant."--"The Guardian "(UK)
Martin Millar was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but has lived in London for a long time. He has written a lot of things - novels and plays and short stories and articles. As Martin Scott, Millar writes the Thraxas series of books; the fist novel in this series won the World Fantasy Award in 2000.