The Tooth Fairy
by:
Graham Joyce (author)
A deft, canny novel about growing up, cunning disguised as a highly readable fairy story: a modern parable of loss and maturity.
A deft, canny novel about growing up, cunning disguised as a highly readable fairy story: a modern parable of loss and maturity.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312862619 (031286261X)
Publish date: February 1st 1998
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
A unique, original take on the tooth fairy. This story had a voice and tone I really enjoyed, and the transitions between scenes were well done. I loved that the tooth fairy could change gender.
Sam and his friends are like any normal gang of normal young boys--roaming wild around the outskirts of their car-factory town, daring adults to challenge their freedom; then one day Sam wakes to find the tooth fairy sitting on the edge of his bed--but this is not the benign figure of childhood myth...
The Tooth Fairy is a very good coming of age tale with sprinkles of horror (and maybe a wee fantasy, as well.) Sam has a Tooth Fairy - A (dream?) that is leaking over into the real world and causing havoc for the Redstone Moodies. As events unfold, Sam must find a way to disconnect from the Tooth Fa...
Graham Joyce surely is one of the most underrated authors...is this possibly because he is so hard to market? Is he horror? Is he fantasy? Or possibly `social surrealism'...? What ever he is his stories are strange, magical and original and he fast becoming one of my favourite authors. He likes to ...
I was expecting more of a horror story but what I got instead was a coming of age, supernatural/psycological thriller. An engrossing and easy read. I particularly liked the ambiguity of the ending.
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