Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second hand store...A stray cat fights and refights a nightly battle to protet his adoptive family from an unimaginable evil...A young couple receives a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternate history of their marriage...Beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks, a frightened little boy bargains for his life with a most persistent troll...Such miraculous inventions and more await within Neil Gaiman's first collection of short fiction. In his capable hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means to reveal the nature of our humanity obscured in the smoke of our fears and anxieties...and reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams.
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Gaiman, N. (2020). Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions. William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Gaiman, Neil. 2020. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Gaiman, Neil, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. William Morrow, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Gaiman, Neil. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. William Morrow, 2020.
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