false 45348368 620387 1116806 0060934700 9780060934705 30 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1116806.Smoke_and_Mirrors_Short_Fictions_and_Illusions 4.08 259 Smoke and Mirrors touch on all of Gaiman's themes: sex, death, dreams, and the end of the world. From "Chivalry," about the Holy Grail and where it finally ended up, to "Troll Bridge," a very adult version of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"; from "Bay Wolf," a story poem that melds Beowulf and Baywatch, with interesting results, to "Murder Mysteries," which is about a murder, but also about angels, God's will, and Evil, these stories leave lasting impressions. Fans of Ray Bradbury's short stories and of Gaiman's other works will enjoy this collection. --Nona Vero

Contents:

*Reading the Entrails: A Rondel
*Chivalry
*Nicholas Was...
*The Price
*Troll Bridge
*Don't Ask Jack
*The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories
*The White Road
*Queen of Knives
*Changes
*The Daughter of Owls
*Shoggoth's Old Peculiar
*Virus
*Looking for the Girl
*Only the End of the World Again
*Bay Wolf
*We Can Get Them Fo You Wholesale
*One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock
*Cold Colors
*The Sweeper of Dreams
*Foreign Parts
*Vampire Sestina
*Mouse
*The Sea Change
*When We Went to See the End of the World
*Desert Wind
*Tastings
*Babycakes
*Murder Mysteries
*Snow, Glass, Apples]]> 1221698 4.13 284752 26382 1998 0 0 false Wed Feb 04 07:50:02 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 02 00:28:56 -0700 2009