The Kings and Queens of Roam

Marc Notes: Unabridged.; Compact disc.; Read by Angela Brazil.; Helen and Rachel McCallister may be sisters, but they have little in common. Older sister Helen is both cutting and scheming. Rachel is lovely, innocent, and blind. When their parents suddenly pass away, Helen becomes the one that Rachel turns to. Helen decides to deceive her sister, making her believe that the world is horrible place and that Rachel could never make it alone. Review Quotes: "Darkly funny and wildly inventive. . . . There's a wealth of enchantment here."Review Quotes: Full of adventure, ghosts, steam-punk industrialists, silk-traders, wild dogs, and mysterious lumberjacks, Daniel Wallace s "The Kings and Queens of Roam "is touched with both magic and whimsy. I paused just as often to savor the beauty of Wallace s sentences as I did to wipe away tears at his characters predicaments. An epic and modern fairy tale of sisters and friendship, "The Kings and Queens of Roam" is about the lies we tell, to ourselves and to each other, and how those stories go on to shape the world around us. --Hannah Tinti, author of The Good ThiefReview Quotes: There is much magic in Daniel Wallace's superb new novel--curses, caves, even a haunted wood--but the most impressive magic is Wallace's understanding of the human heart's depths and vagaries. "The Kings and Queens of Roam" is a fairy tale for adults. --Ron Rash, author of Nothing Gold Can StayReview Quotes: Reading"The Kings and Queens of Roam"is like living, for a few hundred pages, in another world: beautiful, epic, tragic, and ultimately redemptive. In Roam Daniel Wallace has created his own Macondo. This is his best novel yet. --Wesley Stace, author ofCharles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererReview Quotes: "Masterful. . . . [A] complex and gratifying yarn. . . . If 'Life is about making worlds, ' as one of his characters says . . . Wallace is truly alive in having made this one."Review Quotes: "Wallace's eerie fairy tale for grown-ups is a melancholy yet enchanting pastiche of love, loss, redemption, and revenge."Review Quotes: ""A tall-tale jaunt. . . . A whimsical, tender tale about friendship, trust and the price of second chances."Review Quotes: "A fanciful story layered in symbolism and ripe with lyrical language."Review Quotes: "An imaginative, sentimental modern-day tall tale . . . Wallace's far-fetched, rollicking yarn, written in the vein of Manly Wade Wellman and Fred Chappell, consistently engages the reader."Review Quotes: "Daniel Wallace is one of our most masterful storytellers and his latest creation, "The Kings and Queens of Roam", is brimming with his brilliant visions and wise observations about life. Part fairytale, part myth and legend, the city of Roam and her inhabitants--both living and dead--materialize in ways that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. At the heart of it all are two sisters: Rachel and Helen, the twists and turns of their relationship leading the reader on a journey that ultimately is a moral tale--one of grief and forgiveness and the meaning of love."--Jill McCorkle, author of Life After LifeReview Quotes: "Full of adventure, ghosts, steam-punk industrialists, silk-traders, wild dogs, and mysterious lumberjacks, Daniel Wallace's "The Kings and Queens of Roam "is touched with both magic and whimsy. I paused just as often to savor the beauty of Wallace's sentences as I did to wipe away tears at his characters' predicaments. An epic and modern fairy tale of sisters and friendship, "The Kings and Queens of Roam" is about the lies we tell, to ourselves and to each other, and how those stories go on to shape the world around us."--Hannah Tinti, author of The Good ThiefReview Quotes: "There is much magic in Daniel Wallace's superb new novel--curses, caves, even a haunted wood--but the most impressive magic is Wallace's understanding of the human heart's depths and vagaries. "The Kings and Queens of Roam" is a fairy tale for adults."--Ron Rash, author of Nothing Gold Can StayReview Quotes: "Reading "The Kings and Queens of Roam "is like living, for a few hundred pages, in another world: beautiful, epic, tragic, and ultimately redemptive. In Roam Daniel Wallace has created his own Macondo. This is his best novel yet."--Wesley Stace, author of Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererReview Quotes: Daniel Wallace is one of our most masterful storytellers and his latest creation, "The Kings and Queens of Roam", is brimming with his brilliant visions and wise observations about life. Part fairytale, part myth and legend, the city of Roam and her inhabitants--both living and dead--materialize in ways that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. At the heart of it all are two sisters: Rachel and Helen, the twists and turns of their relationship leading the reader on a journey that ultimately is a moral tale--one of grief and forgiveness and the meaning of love. --Jill McCorkle, author of Life After LifeBrief Description: Helen and Rachel McCallister may be sisters, but they have little in common. Older sister Helen is both cutting and scheming. Rachel is lovely, innocent, and blind. When their parents suddenly pass away, Helen becomes the one that Rachel turns to. Helen decides to deceive her sister, making her believe that the world is horrible place and that Rachel could never make it alone. Publisher Marketing: Helen and Rachel McCallister, who live in a town called Roam, are as different as sisters can be: Helen older, bitter, and conniving; Rachel beautiful, naive and blind. When their parents die an untimely death, Rachel has to rely on Helen for everything, but Helen embraces her role in all the wrong ways, convincing Rachel that the world is a dark and dangerous place she couldn t possibly survive on her own or so Helen believes, until Rachel makes a surprising choice that turns both their worlds upside down. In this new novel, Southern literary master Daniel Wallace returns to the tradition of tall tales and folklore made memorable in his bestselling "Big Fish." "The Kings and Queens of Roam" is a wildly inventive, beautifully written, and big-hearted tale of family and the ties that bind. " Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2013 (EAN 9781476703978, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/04/2013 (EAN 9781476703978, Hardcover) Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 24 (EAN 9781476703978, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Wallace, Daniel Daniel Wallace is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters as well as a dozen more books that explore the underpinnings of the Star Wars universe, including The Jedi Path, Star Wars: The Essential Atlas, and co-author of Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle. He is a regular contributor to Star Wars Insider magazine and compiled the questions used in the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game. In addition to his contributions to the galaxy far, far away, he has written for several other universes such as Indiana Jones, Smallville, Supernatural, DC Comics (The Joker and The Art of Superman Return) and Marvel Comics (The Marvel Encyclopedia). Contributor Bio:  Brazil, Angela Angela Brazil (1868-1947) escreveu sobre personagens femininas, com intuito de entretenimento, em vez de instrucao moral. Na primeira metade do seculo XX, ela publicou cerca de 50 livros de ficcao das meninas, em sua maioria historias de internato. Populares nos anos 60, seus livros chegaram a se proibidos em escolas de meninas no Reino Unido. A escritora fez uma grande contribuicao para mudar a natureza da ficcao para as meninas, apresentando um ponto de vista feminino, que era ativo, consciente de temas atuais e independente. Ela reconheceu a adolescencia como um periodo de transicao e aceitou as meninas como tendo interesses e preocupacoes que podem ser compartilhadas e postas em praticas comuns. Nascida em Preston, Lancashire, filha cacula de Clarence Brazil, um gerente de fabrica, e Angelica McKinnel, a filha do dono de uma linha de transporte no Rio de Janeiro. Seus irmaos eram Amy Clarence e Walter. Sua mae, que havia sofrido durante a sua escolaridade vitoriana, estava determinada a criar seus filhos de uma forma livre, criativa e estimulante, incentivando-os a se interessar por literatura, musica e botanica. Por volta dos 30 anos de idade, ela comecou a escrever sua primeira estoria de escola: A Sorte de Philippa, que foi baseada nas experiencias de sua mae que cresceu no Rio de Janeiro e frequentou um internato ingles. Porem, esse primeiro livro so foi publicado em 1906. Assim, seu primeiro romance publicado de criancas foi Um Moleque Terrivel, datado de 1904, que nao era uma historia escolar. Fortemente autobiografica, a estoria representava Brazil como o principal personagem Peggy e sua amiga Leila Langdale aparecendo como Lilian. A Sorte de Philippa foi um sucesso instantaneo inaugurou uma longa lista de titulos cujas estorias se passavam em internatos e escolas para meninas. Ela publicou 49 romances sobre o tema e cerca de 70 contos. As historias tendem a se concentrar nas relacoes entre os alunos, incluindo situacoes de aliancas e ciumes, bem como a experiencia dos personagens que se sentem excluidos da comunidade escolar.