By Emma Bull
Acclaimed via critics and readers on its first booklet in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for most sensible First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is without doubt one of the novels that has outlined smooth city fantasy.
Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. yet her boyfriend simply dumped her, her band simply broke up, and lifestyles may rarely be worse. Then, strolling domestic via downtown Minneapolis on a dismal evening, she unearths herself drafted into an invisible conflict among the faerie people. Now, greater than her personal survival is at risk―and her personal personal tastes, musical and private, are a great deal beside the point.
By turns difficult and lyrical, marvelous and down-to-earth, War for the Oaks is a fable novel that is as a lot approximately this global as in regards to the different one. it really is approximately true love and loyalty, approximately genuine tune and musicians, approximately fake glamour and actual paintings. it's going to swap how you pay attention and spot your individual day-by-day life.
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