Summerlong

Pre-publication praise for Summerlong Peter Beagle's novel Summerlong is a lovely, tantalizing read that moves through a finely-detailed, familiar world into a tale as old and as urgent as language. Its strong-minded characters grab threads of the tale and try to pull it into wildly different directions, tangling passion, comedy, love, despair into a study of life on the B-flat harmonica, accompanied by a soundtrack of wind and waves, and, always, good smells from the kitchen. Patricia A. McKillip, author of The Riddle-Master of Hed and Dreams of Distant Shores Praise for Peter S. Beagle One of my favorite writers. Madeleine L Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time Peter S. Beagle illuminates with his own particular magic such commonplace matters as ghosts, unicorns, and werewolves. For years a loving readership has consulted him as an expert on those hearts reasons that reason does not know. Ursula K. Le Guin, author of A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness The only contemporary to remind one of Tolkien. Booklist Peter S. Beagle is (in no particular order) a wonderful writer, a fine human being, and a bandit prince out to steal readers hearts. Tad Williams, author of Tailchaser s Song It s a fully rounded region, this other world of Peter Beagle s imagination. Kirkus [Beagle] has been compared, not unreasonably, with Lewis Carroll and J. R. R. Tolkien, but he stands squarely and triumphantly on his own feet. The Saturday Review Not only does Peter Beagle make his fantasy worlds come vividly, beautifully alive; he does it for the people who enter them. Poul Anderson, author of The High Crusade Peter S. Beagle is the magician we all apprenticed ourselves to. Before all the endless series and shared-world novels, Beagle was there to show us the amazing possibilities waiting in the worlds of fantasy, and he is still one of the masters by which the rest of the field is measured. Lisa Goldstein, author of The Red Magician Peter S. Beagle would be one of the century s great writers in any arena he chose. Edward Bryant, author of Cinnabar Praise for The Last Unicorn The Last Unicorn is the best book I have ever read. You need to read it. If you ve already read it, you need to read it again. Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear Almost as if it were the last fairy tale, come out of lonely hiding in the forests of childhood, The Last Unicorn is as full of enchantment as any of the favorite tales readers may choose to recall... a delicate, sensitive, yet powerful rendering of all the intangibles that make a fairy tale unforgettable. St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood.- Amazon.com Praise for Sleight of Hand Each piece bridges the rich intersection of fantasy and fairy tale, reality and possibility, exploring predestination, fate, and the power of love through characters that come to vivid, three-dimensional life within a few short pages. Library Journal This bittersweet collection of 13 recent stories pays tribute to the complicated power of family ties.... Fans of The Last Unicorn will also appreciate The Woman Who Married the Man in the Moon, a Schmendrick prequel in classic bittersweet Beagle style. Publishers Weekly Sleight of Hand will beguile and enchant. New York Journal of Books Not only one of our greatest fantasists, but one of our greatest writers, a magic realist worthy of consideration with such writers as Marquez, Allende, and even Borges. The American Culture There s quiet power here, and delicate craftsmanship, and, most of all, a genuine emotional response that few short-story collections can generate. Green Man Review Praise for A Fine & Private Place One of literature s most beautiful works about ghostly times and placestold with wit, charm, and a sense of individuality. New York Times Book Review Both sepulchral and oddly appealing...[Beagle s] ectoplasmic fable has a distinct mossy charm. TIME Delightful! San Francisco Chronicle