false 44930 15 Gordon Dahlquist's debut novel is a big, juicy, epic that will appeal to Diana Gabaldon fans (see her quote below) and lovers of literary fantasy, like Keith Donohue's <i>The Stolen Child</i>. <i>The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters</i> begins with a "Dear Jane" letter in which Celeste Temple learns of the end of her engagement. Curiosity leads her to follow her fiancé to London where she uncovers a secret. Find out more about the origins of this suspenseful literary romance, in Dahlquist's note to readers, below. <hr noshade="noshade" size="1" class="bucketDivider" /><div class="bucket"> <b class="h1">A Note from the Author</b><br><br><img src=" http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/a-plus/Gordon-Dahlquist.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" align="left"> In the winter of 2004 I was selected for jury duty (at the very same time Martha Stewart went to trial in the next building over--we all had to walk past the fifteen media vans to get to our courthouse). Since the courts in Manhattan are near Chinatown, I like jury duty, as it means a few days of excellent lunches. Instead, New York was hit with a ferocious, sub-zero ice storm that went on for days, where it was impossible to wander in the way I had hoped, and so, with the grind of the trial itself, we jurors were marooned for close to 4 hours each day in the jury room. The second night of the trial, however, I had a strange dream where a friend of mine appeared in the exact garb of one of <i>The Glass Books'</i> three main characters, Doctor Svenson, and together we faced a mystery in a strange, dark, Victorian building involving prisoners in a creepy upstairs room without a door. While I very rarely remember my dreams, the next morning I found this one percolating in my head quite vividly. But then, for no reason I can recall, I took out a notebook, and began--instead of the Doctor, who I would get to almost off-handedly in another 100 pages or so--writing about a willful young woman from the West Indies whose fiancée has abandoned her without explanation, making it up as I went along. By the end of the trial I had the first chapter. I am by trade a playwright, and had not written prose fiction of any kind for nearly 20 years, but I found myself hooked on the story and the characters--perhaps out of my own desire to know what happened next--and so persisted, putting aside most everything else, writing for the most part in coffee shops and on the subway, until I finished the book almost exactly one year later. <i>--Gordon Dahlquist</i><p><br> <hr noshade="noshade" size="1" class="bucketDivider" /><div class="bucket"><p><br> 292054 book 1 8 2006 The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters total:639|5:136|4:196|3:160|2:86|1:61| 639 2177 1175 207 1 2 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 10:52:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 03:53:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 19:40:40 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 15:22:24 -0700 2007
Apparently, many people are undecided about how to rate this book. From what I've observed, people either love...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Jan 21 06:38:01 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:38:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 02 21:52:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 21:57:55 -0700 2009
And with its epic scope and decidedly English air -- despite the fact that it is set in a nameless country -- this tome seems at first blush to promise a fantasy-adventure...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 22:18:30 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 22:25:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:48:11 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:48:11 -0800 2009 Gordon Dahlquist's work as a playwright seems to have ill-prepared him for a career as a novelist. In his debut novel, he combines history, crime, and social commentary__with mixed results. While his characters are unusual and interesting, particularly the poetry-quoting assassin "Cardinal"...

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Tja, wo sortiert man das Buch ein? Fantasy? Mystery? Science Fiction (wegen des Steampunk)? History? Krimi? Denn all das ist es. Nützt alles nichts, irgendwo muss es hin und am ehesten paß...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 27 06:42:55 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 07:19:12 -0800 2009
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I love the steam punk genre and the atmosphere that it imbues in the reader and after a promising start that drew me in an...more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 12:39:34 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 12:40:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 06:57:39 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 11:16:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:39:59 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:00:07 -0700 2009
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