THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA on 2013 LOCUS Recommended Reading List
Very happy to report that THE VILLAGE SANG TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC is one of 28 fantasy novels on LOCUS magazine's just-announced 2013 Recommended Reading List. The novel has received wonderful reviews from reviewers Paul Di Filippo and Gary K. Wolfe in LOCUS online and the print magazine; and from Michael Bishop in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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"McAllister’s book radiates an elegiac and meditative aura, as of puzzles that continue to perplex even after their solutions seem conclusive. It charts the slippery interfaces and interstices between the quotidian and the supernal, a realm most of us shut out and pretend does not exist. If classic Italian cinema still flourished—a world in decline and decay and evanescence, much like Brad’s memories—then it would require a combination of the talents of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini to film this haunting biography of boy and his village."
--Paul di Filippo
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"McAllister’s book stands as an eloquent ode to the universal mysteries of both place and coming of age."
--Michael Bishop
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"Luminous, haunting and thoroughly memorable..."
--Gary K. Wolfe
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"McAllister’s book radiates an elegiac and meditative aura, as of puzzles that continue to perplex even after their solutions seem conclusive. It charts the slippery interfaces and interstices between the quotidian and the supernal, a realm most of us shut out and pretend does not exist. If classic Italian cinema still flourished—a world in decline and decay and evanescence, much like Brad’s memories—then it would require a combination of the talents of Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini to film this haunting biography of boy and his village."
--Paul di Filippo
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"McAllister’s book stands as an eloquent ode to the universal mysteries of both place and coming of age."
--Michael Bishop
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"Luminous, haunting and thoroughly memorable..."
--Gary K. Wolfe
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