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Someplace to Be Flying

By: Charles de Lint
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Summary

Lily is a photojournalist in search of the “animal people” who supposedly haunt the city’s darkest slums. Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide—uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city’s oldest inhabitants.

For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.

Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they’ve stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city’s soul, nothing is quite as it appears.

©1998 Charles de Lint (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Magical Realism World Literature Native American

Critic Reviews

“The reader does not have to be strictly a fan of either thrillers or fantasy to thoroughly enjoy this delightful tale.”

(Washington Post)

“De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious.”

(Globe and Mail (Toronto))

“De Lint…clearly has no equal as an urban fantasist and very few equals among fantasists as a folklorist. First-rate.”

(Booklist)

“An enthralling blend of old European and Native American mythology, seamlessly worked into a modern setting and situation. De Lint’s best so far.”

(Kirkus Reviews)
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I am so happy to have found not only this book but this author. I loved this book. If only our world were a little more caring to one another & really took the time to look, to see, to hear the world we would all be better off.
The beautifully written pages, full of love & mystery, along with a believable plot that draws you in and cannot put down to the final page, wow it’s an amazing story. The Australian Magpie is my personal favourite but I too see the wonder in their character and love their cheekiness!
Once again the narrator Kate Reading did an excellent job, her voice is so easy to listen to and it is simple to hear the voices of the different characters. Well done!
Thanks Charles for a wonderful thrilling book and for making me see things a little differently.

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This is a wonderful book.
Kate Reading does an amazing job.
I can’t recommend this book enough.

Charles de Lint at his best!!

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