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Neil Gaiman (Author)

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Publication Date: 19 Sep 2005

A breathtaking and magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman.

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...

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A breathtaking and magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Headline Review (19 Sep 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0755322827
ISBN-13: 978-0755322824
Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (148 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The versatile Neil Gaiman is best known for scripting upmarket graphic novels, most famously the lengthy Sandman cycle. Stardust was a joint project with artist Charles Vess, a short novel of fairyland enriched by at least one sumptuous painting on every page. This edition contains only the (slightly rewritten) text, alas. Gaiman's story looks back to days before commercial genre fantasy, to Lord Dunsany's and Hope Mirrlees's visions of Faerie as a misty country which is at the same time temptingly close and "over the hills and far away". The simple tale is new but has a twice-told familiarity, crafted like a mosaic from many traditional elements. Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest. Stardust is by turns knowing, poetic, comic and grisly and exudes considerable charm. If only we had those full-colour Vess paintings too. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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In prose that dances and dazzles, Gaiman describes the indescribable: the eerie colours, ravishing scents and dangerous laughter of Faerie (Susanna Clarke)

A new fairy tale about a young man's hunt for his heart's desire, told in clear, rolling prose (Guardian)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Adult Fairytale 13 Aug 2007

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If you exclude 'Good Omens' when I was about fifteen (during my Terry Pratchett phase) Stardust is the first Neil Gaiman novel I have read. I have subsequently gone on to read 'Neverwhere' and 'American Gods' is on my wish list to be purchased when I have made some headway through the backlog of books by my bed. The fact that I am willingly investing time and money on Gaiman's back catalogue is testimony to how much I enjoyed Stardust.

A true 'adult fairy tale', this is not a Harry Potter or Lyra adventure that has been written for children but is read by adults. With a modicum of proper sex, plenty of deaths, and the odd bit of swearing this is very much aimed at grown ups (although it will also be suitable for most teenagers). That doesn't mean however, that it lacks magic. Stardust is a book teeming with a sense of wonder, enchantment and mystery. From witches to sky pirates to magical candles to very human (and slightly irritated) falling stars, the book creates a wholly original, fantastical world.

It also does it with style, wit and a sense of poetry. There is none of the flat prose style that can often hamstring fantasy novels. The narration flows in such a way that you find yourself swept along with the story, entertained as much by the language as by the action it describes. Nor does the book try to explain everything; Gaiman apparently being aware that the fun of magic and fantasy is as much what you're not shown as what you are. Readers are trusted to suspend their disbelief and just go with concepts such as witches who can turn people into goats and goats into people or a fantasy realm beyond a wall in Northern English village. Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shimmering Stardust 19 Jun 2007

By E. A Solinas HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER

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Fairy tales tend to lose their sparkle when they're made into books for adults.

But Neil Gaiman creates his own sparkling fairy tale in "Stardust," an entrancing fantasy tale that never loses its magic. With beautiful prose, likable characters, and a mesh of the grotesque and the ethereal, this is Gaiman's reworking of fairy tales -- with a slight wink to the readers.

Years ago, Dunstan Thorn fell in love with a beautiful slave from across the Wall. Nine months later, he got a baby boy on his doorstep. His son Tristan grows up unaware of his heritage, and longs for the beautiful, frosty Victoria Forester. When she rejects him, he makes a rash promise -- he'll pursue a fallen star over the Wall and bring it back to her, if she gives him her hand.

But when he finds the star, he learns that it is a beautiful young girl, a daughter of the moon named Yvaine. The dying Lord of Stormheld threw a gem to the distance and accidently knocked her from the sky. Now his sons are trying to get the gem back, since the one who gets the gem will be the next Lord. What is more, an ancient witch is pursuing the star, determined to cut out her heart so she and her sisters can be young again. To protect the lovely star, Tristan is called on to be a hero, and to learn who he really is...

Few fantasy stories are as well-done as "Stardust." Gaiman mixes humor, romance, grisly realism and airy-fairiness in a tight little plot. It only really picks up two-thirds of the way into the book, but what a trip it is. It slides rather than explodes to a conclusion, where everything slips into place and all the loose ends are neatly tied together, in a way that makes perfect sense.

His writing is a mix of beautiful details and fast-moving plot. Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shimmering Stardust 27 Jun 2007

By E. A Solinas HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

Fairy tales tend to lose their sparkle when they're made into books for adults.

But Neil Gaiman creates his own sparkling fairy tale in "Stardust," an entrancing fantasy tale that never loses its magic. With beautiful prose, likable characters, and a mesh of the grotesque and the ethereal, this is Gaiman's reworking of fairy tales -- with a slight wink to the readers.

Years ago, Dunstan Thorn fell in love with a beautiful slave from across the Wall. Nine months later, he got a baby boy on his doorstep. His son Tristan grows up unaware of his heritage, and longs for the beautiful, frosty Victoria Forester. When she rejects him, he makes a rash promise -- he'll pursue a fallen star over the Wall and bring it back to her, if she gives him her hand.

But when he finds the star, he learns that it is a beautiful young girl, a daughter of the moon named Yvaine. The dying Lord of Stormheld threw a gem to the distance and accidently knocked her from the sky. Now his sons are trying to get the gem back, since the one who gets the gem will be the next Lord, and an ancient witch is pursuing the star, determined to cut out her heart. To protect the lovely star, Tristan is called on to be a hero, and to learn who he really is...

Few fantasy stories are as well-done as "Stardust." Gaiman mixes humor, romance, grisly realism and airy-fairiness in a tight little plot. It only really picks up two-thirds of the way into the book, but what a trip it is. It slides rather than explodes to a conclusion, where everything slips into place and all the loose ends are neatly tied together, in a way that makes perfect sense.

His writing is a mix of beautiful details and fast-moving plot. Read more ›

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Fantasy but it cut itself short

I love Neil Gaiman and this is a wonderful, wonderful story but I got the impression the author got bored with it and finished it quickly. Read more

Published 16 days ago by fionafrog

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly bewitching...

I was enthralled throughout, entranced by Gaiman’s prose and the way his words weaved around my heart like cunningly beaten metal ivy. Read more

Published 22 days ago by LastKrystallos

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book

Very disappointed to have finished this book as I had became very enchanted by it, enjoying the journey of the main characters which never happened to be as expected. Read more

Published 25 days ago by Victoria Lavington

4.0 out of 5 stars Good seller

The book cover was a bit different from what was showing but i didn't mind that. The book was new and arrived within estimated time.

Published 1 month ago by Guffy

5.0 out of 5 stars Stardust

Gaiman shows yet again that fairy tales aren't just for children in this story of true love and adventure with fallen stars, hidden heirs and all the tropes that make a great tale.

Published 1 month ago by Waylander101

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the film

Quite a grown up slightly sexy kind of fairy tale. This is a keeper I will revisit. A classic. Can't think of any more words to say

Published 2 months ago by Bernard Doring

5.0 out of 5 stars Stardust is Absolutely Stunning

Neil Gaiman's Stardust is a beautiful book to read with vivid descriptions fitting to the characters points of view (it's not in 1st person but in different sections it follows... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Zoe Hannah Fabian

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful story full of adventure.

You are pulled into the world of fairie along with Tristan ... It's just lovely (with a bit of gore and some tears but that's life right?). Well worth a read.

Published 2 months ago by Mr. Thomas J. Staple

5.0 out of 5 stars At last! A Good adult faery story

The fae are hardly mentioned but all the other characters are present and the story pulls you gently along until, as if by magic, it's finished and left you wanting more.

Published 2 months ago by DadThe Tooth

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this story

I was surprised by how much the story deviated from that of the film, but while the film's ending is undoubtably more satisfying, both are fantastic

Published 2 months ago by Matt Scullion

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