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Synopsis
This literary fantasy marks the author's debut. In 1949, a band of hobgoblins living in the woods near a remote American farmhouse kidnap seven-year-old Henry Day and substitute one of their own, a changeling who himself was once human. As the changeling Henry Day gradually reclaims his lost humanity and recalls dim scraps of his original German childhood as a piano prodigy, the first Henry Day, now called Aniday, leads a feral, lonely existence as he transforms into a faery.
| Size | | Length: | 272 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Don't call me a fairy. We don't like to be called fairies anymore."
Industry Reviews
"[A]n impressive novel of outsiders whose feelings of alienation are more natural than supernatural."
(01/23/2006)
"Take that, Bilbo Baggins! Donohue's sparkling debut especially delights because, by surrounding his fantasy with real-world, humdrum detail, he makes magic believable."
(02/01/2006)
"On the surface, [Keith] Donohue may seem to have written a clever debut novel about fairies. But the real triumph of the book is that, while our backs were turned, he has performed a switch and delivered a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity."
(07/09/2006)
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