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| Original Title: | The Bell at Sealey Head |
| ISBN: | 0441016308 (ISBN13: 9780441016303) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009) |
Patricia A. McKillip
Hardcover | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.99 | 2413 Users | 252 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Bell at Sealey Head |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2008 by Ace Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Romance |
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Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her daughter, and a strange bell that tolls from nowhere each night; dream a dream of a little romance, sweet and pure. A book about books, about the wonder of reading, about readers and their voyages and writers and their trials and victories. A book that loves books. The theme: the power of stories. A motif: what are the eyes saying, what sort of house exists behind those windows, look to the eyes. The prose: refined, delicate and lovely. The feel: wispy and evanescent. The result: it was like a nap in the park on a sunny, breezy day, a nap full of little dreams, all these little connected dreams within one enchanting dream. I imagine I was smiling throughout this happy dream; I woke from it still smiling.Rating Of Books The Bell at Sealey Head
Ratings: 3.99 From 2413 Users | 252 ReviewsJudgment Of Books The Bell at Sealey Head
The doors of a crumbling manor open into another world that lives under an enchantment of ritual. The only connection between the two worlds is the bell that tolls at sunset every day, until a stranger comes to town, determined to find out what lies behind the mystery of the bell. The Bell at Sealey Head is another one of Patricia McKillips dream-like fairy tales, and I liked it very much, particularly because there are so many book-obsessed characters in the novel, and the solution to theA cozy fantastical mystery that left me guessing until the last pages.
This is one of my favorite McKillip novels, second only to Tower at Stony Brook.Imagine a small coastal town where inhabitants have always heard a bell toll the end of the day--a bell no one has seen. Although many have stopped noticing it and there are as many stories as to where the sound originates, there are a few who are determined to get to the bottom of this mystery: a stranger, new to town; a wood witch; and the merchant's daughter, who's imagination and stories keep returning to the
Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her
Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her
There's not much of a feeling of peril or huge things at stake and the final battle is something of an anticlimax in Patricia A. McKillip's The Bell at Sealey Head, but the book was a pleasant, atmospheric read in often poetic language populated by characters I was interested in. Like most of her books, The Bell at Sealey Head uses magic, finding yourself, and the power of words as her subjects, but here we also have people stuck in miserable ruts because it seems easier and less dangerous than
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