I found myself flipping back and forth to this section after each story. The book includes an Introduction which gives a short description of the inspiration or background of each story. Of course, this book was originally published in 1998, when navigating these waters were a little less turbulent than today. In this collection, Gaiman is daring, taking on explicit sex, politics, pornography, and even sex change. filled with things with too many legs and other things with no legs at all.” It’s the little things like referring to crabs and fish as “. This ability also really stood out to me in a different book - “The Ocean at the End of the Lane.' I can’t help but admire his mind. A good example of this is “The Price”, where Gaiman story about stray cats turns from reality to supernatural in an instant. He's so deft with his word choice that these transitions happen with ease. One moment the story feels like an honest recollection of his past, and the next we're interacting with angels, trolls, and werewolves. One of my favored aspects of Gaiman is his ability to slip seamlessly between realism and fantasy.

Some of my preferences were “Chivalry”, “Changes”, “We Can Get Them for You Wholesale,' and “Snow, Glass, Apples.' I enjoyed a majority of these stories and Gaiman continues to be one of my favorite authors. It’s not his best work, but as a collection it’s imaginative and provocative. They run the gamut from sci-fi to very short parables to fantasy to magical realism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Gaiman is literary bacon - short stories, young adult, fantasy, adult fiction - he’s good in anything! “Smoke and Mirrors” is a collection of 30 or so short stories.

An extraordinary collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction that will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

Includes extra material exclusive to this Headline Review edition. These tales and much more await in this extraordinary book, revealing one of our most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. This definitive collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

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