“If Hermione Granger had been an American who never received an invitation to Hogwarts, this might have been her story.” - People. Earning comparisons to wildly popular fantasy novels by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman,...
“If Hermione Granger had been an American who never received an invitation to Hogwarts, this might have been her story.” - People
Earning comparisons to wildly popular fantasy novels by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman, Emily Croy Barker’s enchanting debut offers an intelligent escape into a richly imagined world. And with an appealing female protagonist, cinematic storytelling, wry humor, and wonderfully clever literary references, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic is sure to capture the imaginations of readers everywhere.
During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, eager to forget about her disastrous breakup and stalled dissertation, Nora Fischer wanders off and somehow finds herself in another realm. There, she meets glamorous Ilissa - who introduces Nora to a decadent new world - and her gorgeous son Raclin. But when the elegant veneer of this dreamland shatters, Nora finds herself in a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. And the only way she can survive is by learning real magic herself.
About the Author
A graduate of Harvard University, Emily Croy Barker has been a magazine journalist for more than 20 years. She is currently executive editor at The American Lawyer magazine. This is her first novel.
“Emily Croy Barker has written a sophisticated fairy tale that has one foot through the looking glass and the other squarely planted in the real world. Both classic and wholly original, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic is an imaginative synthesis of the stories that delighted us as children and the novels that inspired us as adults.” - Ivy Pochoda, author of The Art of Disappearing and Visitation Street
Kích thước | 13,9 x 21,3 (cm) |
Tác giả | Emily Croy Barker |
Nhà xuất bản | Penguin Books |
Năm xuất bản | 2014 |
Đơn vị phát hành | Penguin Books |
Thể loại | Fiction - Literature |
Loại bìa | Bìa mềm |
Số trang | 576 (trang) |
Trọng lượng | 453 (g) |
Ngôn ngữ | Tiếng Anh |