Stardust

<p><p>in The Sleepy English Countryside Of Decades Past, There Is A Town That Has Stood On A Jut Of Granite For Six Hundred Years. And Immediately To The East Stands A High Stone Wall, For Which The Village Is Named. Here In The Town Of Wall, Tristran Thorn Has Lost His Heart To The Hauntingly Beautiful Victoria Forester. One Crisp October Night, As They Watch, A Star Falls From The Sky, And Victoria Promises To Marry Tristran If He'll Retrieve That Star And Bring It Back For Her. It Is This Promise That Sends Tristran Through The Only Gap In The Wall, Across The Meadow, And Into The Most Unforgettable Adventure Of His Life.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>tristran Thorn Falls In Love With The Prettiest Girl In Town And Makes Her A Foolish Promise: He Says That He'll Go Find The Falling Star They Both Watched Streak Across The Night Sky. She Says She'll Marry Him If He Finds It, So He Sets Off, Leaving His Home Of Wall, And Heads Out Into The Perilous Land Of Faerie, Where Not Everything Is What It Appears. Gaiman Is Known For His Fanciful Wit, Sterling Prose And Wildly Imaginative Plots, And Stardust Is No Exception. Gaiman's Silver-tongued Narration Vividly Brings This Production To Life. Like The Bards Of Old, Gaiman Is Equally Proficient At Telling Tales As He Is At Writing Them, And His Pleasant British Accent Feels Like A Perfect Match To The Material. Gaiman's Performance Is An Extraordinary Achievement-if Only All Authors Could Read Their Own Work So Well. The Audiobook Also Includes A Brief, Informative And Enjoyable Interview With Gaiman About The Writing Of The Novel And His Work In The Audiobook Studio. Available As Harper Perennial (reviews, Nov. 23, 1998). (sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.</p>