Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint

Charles de Lint is a full-time writer and musician who makes his home in Ottawa, Canada. NOOK Book (eBook) Sign in to Purchase Instantly. The world is lots of fun – s90s Ottowa exists side by side with the realm of the fae taken more or less straight from European and Celtic folklore, with some fun modern twists5. This book is a combination of two of de Lint's Jack novels – Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon.

Behind the familiar facade of her city lies the world of Faerie, and the Unseelie court and the Wild Hunt are out to stop Jacky before she realizes that she is the key to the war brewing in Faerie. In Charles De Lint's novel Jack, the Giant-Killer, we meet an ordinary girl named Jacky Rowan who has been marked for destruction in a world that she doesn't even know exists. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< Married since 1980 to his fellow musician MaryAnn Harris, Charles de Lint lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada._Jack the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint Ebook Epub PDF ofz Among de Lint's many other novels are Mulengro, Jack the Giant-Killer, and The Little Country. In addition, de Lint has published several collections of Newford short stories, including Moonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. The Newford novels include Spirit Walk, Memory and Dream, Trader, Someplace To Be Flying, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and Spirits in the Wires. Moonheart was set in and around 'Newford,' an imaginary modern North American city, and many of de Lint's subsequent novels have been set in Newford as well, with a growing cast of characters who weave their way in and out of the stories. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fictionīorn in Holland in 1951, Charles de Lint grew up in Canada, with a few years off in Turkey, Lebanon, and Switzerland.Īlthough his first novel was 1984's The Riddle of the Wren, it was with Moonheart, published later that same year, that de Lint made his mark, and established him at the forefront of 'urban fantasy,' modern fantasy storytelling set on contemporary city streets.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.

Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint