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Two lonely people with extraordinary powers--Edmund Reynolds, a wandering witch who helps those in need, and Matilda Black, an empathic "witness" to the inner dreams of people--embark on a journey into the imagination together, exploring the darkest secrets of the past.
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She doesn't write multivolume fantasy epics--what Nina Kiriki Hoffman does write are haunting, character-driven short stories and novels. Matt (Matilda) Black, one of the two main characters in A Red Heart of Memories, appeared in two previous Hoffman novellas: Unmasking and Home for Christmas. Matt is a wanderer with the power to speak to inanimate objects and watch other people's thoughts and dreams. She meets a wandering witch, Edmund Reynolds. "Mostly I just wander from one place to the next," said Edmund, "waiting to be needed for something, then trying to figure out what it is." Spirit tells Edmund he can help Matt, even if she doesn't want him hanging around, and Matt finds that she can help Edmund in return.
Hoffman's fantasy is very much in the spirit of Jonathan Carroll's The Marriage of Sticks and Peter S. Beagle's Tamsin. She's written for children and her books are suitable for young adult readers, but don't be fooled. They're sophisticated, well-crafted stories written in a distinctive, uncynical voice and filled with magical reality.
In 1994, Hoffman won the Bram Stoker First Novel Award for The Thread That Binds the Bones, and both The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) and A Red Heart of Memories were nominated for the World Fantasy Award. As of 2001, Hoffman had been nominated for Nebula Awards four times. --Nona Vero
About the Author
Nina Kiriki Hoffman won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel for The Thread That Binds the Bones, and her second novel The Silent Strength of Stones was a finalist for both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Most of her work has been shorter length fiction, collected in the small press volumes A Legacy of Fire and Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with four cats and a mannequin.
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- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0441006515
- ISBN 13 9780441006519
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages329
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