- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd (26 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0285635042
- ISBN-13: 978-0285635043
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,754,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter Beagle has made an exemplary career in the fantasy field by not doing what was expected of him; until now, he has always resisted sequels or even doing the same sort of thing twice. The Innkeeper's Song was his first and only tale set in anything that resembled the worlds of conventional heroic fantasy, although its games with techniques of narration, its sense of the incalculable wild costs of magic and its bitter-sweet romances took it well away from being quite what the audience for such books would expect. Somewhat to his own surprise, in The Magician of Karakosk he has produced, something that almost resembles a sequel: a book of tales in which one features characters from the earlier book and all of which are set in its world. Furthermore, all of them are tales about story--the way that the telling of tales and the knowledge that any adventure that is survived will become a tale. This consciousness means that when Beagle talks of a pedlar kidnapped by dying giants, a peasant stolen to be a queen whose mother hires a thief to steal her back or a magician forced to teach an evil ruler the spells she will misuse, we can never entirely rely on expectation--these are stories which fly off the handle. In the end it is a matter of how he tells them--gorgeously: "She told it in almost the same words that the girl had used, but in a voice like muffled drums and like sails snapping in the wind. Now playful, now resonant with action, now shivering with pity or wonder or rage, now briefly flowering into song, her voice built and kept a hypnotic rhythm that held the girl absolutely still even after the tale was over". --Roz Kaveney
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All those who were enthralled by Peter S. Beagle's highly acclaimed novel, 'The Innkeeper's Song', will revel in the prospect of re-entering its strange, haunting world in this collection of stories, each marked by that special brand of magic that has earned the author comparison with Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Moving from one teller of tales to another, Beagle describes the last, tragic sacrifice of the most celebrated bard of all time, the adventures of a peasant magician whose skills exceeded his own humble ambitions, the fate of a group of travelling players who make the mistake of dabbling in politics. He tells of the perilous escapade of two ageing mercenaries, the story of a young girl and Singing Fish, and records the poignant legacy of the dying race of giants. Told with humour, subtlety and infinite skill, these spellbinding stories will captivate all readers, whether they are seasoned Beagle fans or come to him for the first time.
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