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Magic Street by Orson Scott Card (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345416899
ISBN-139780345416896
eBay Product ID (ePID)43816335
Product Key Features
Book TitleMagic Street
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicFantasy / General
GenreFiction
AuthorOrson Scott Card
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight24.9 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-065524
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsPraise for Orson Scott Card' s Enchantment " Card is a powerful storyteller." - Los Angeles Times " [His] prose is a model of narrative clarity; the author never says more than is needed or arbitrarily withholds information, yet even a simple declarative sentence carries a delicious hint of further revelation." - The New York Times " The best writer science fiction has to offer." - The Houston Post " Card is skilled at pacing and good with an action scene, but he has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by ethical dilemma, and in doing so has raised his work to a high plane." - Chicago Sun-Times, Praise for Orson Scott Card's Enchantment "Card is a powerful storyteller." Los Angeles Times "[His] prose is a model of narrative clarity; the author never says more than is needed or arbitrarily withholds information, yet even a simple declarative sentence carries a delicious hint of further revelation." The New York Times "The best writer science fiction has to offer." The Houston Post "Card is skilled at pacing and good with an action scene, but he has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by ethical dilemma, and in doing so has raised his work to a high plane." Chicago Sun-Times, Praise for Orson Scott Card's Enchantment "Card is a powerful storyteller." -Los Angeles Times "[His] prose is a model of narrative clarity; the author never says more than is needed or arbitrarily withholds information, yet even a simple declarative sentence carries a delicious hint of further revelation." -The New York Times "The best writer science fiction has to offer." -The Houston Post "Card is skilled at pacing and good with an action scene, but he has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by ethical dilemma, and in doing so has raised his work to a high plane." -Chicago Sun-Times, Praise for Orson Scott Card's Enchantment "Card is a powerful storyteller." Los Angeles Times "[His] prose is a model of narrative clarity; the author never says more than is needed or arbitrarily withholds information, yet even a simple declarative sentence carries a delicious hint of further revelation." The New York Times "The best writer science fiction has to offer." The Houston Post "Card is skilled at pacing and good with an action scene, but he has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by ethical dilemma, and in doing so has raised his work to a high plane." Chicago Sun-Times From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Orson Scott Card's Enchantment "Card is a powerful storyteller." -Los Angeles Times "ÝHis¨ prose is a model of narrative clarity; the author never says more than is needed or arbitrarily withholds information, yet even a simple declarative sentence carries a delicious hint of further revelation." -The New York Times "The best writer science fiction has to offer." -The Houston Post "Card is skilled at pacing and good with an action scene, but he has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by ethical dilemma, and in doing so has raised his work to a high plane." -Chicago Sun-Times
Dewey DecimalNA
SynopsisOrson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine. In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family-a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard-and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic. Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the "real world" of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack's challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists. Both a novel ofconstantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, Magic Street is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writer-a novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels., In a peaceful, prosperous African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles lives Mack Street, a mystery child. Mack realizes how different he is from others when he sees a magic house that no one else can see. Inside, what Mack does has strange effects on the real world of concrete, commerce, and conflict., Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine. In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to familya boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyardand an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic. Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the "real world" of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack's challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists. Both a novel of constantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, Magic Street is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writera novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels., Mack Street was born too soon, abandoned by an unknown mother in a Los Angeles park. It was a miracle he survived, and a miracle he reached his teen years, but what his foster mother never realized was that when he stared off in space he was seeing other people's dreams.
LC Classification NumberPS3553.A655M35 2005
