Magic Street (edit title)

Mua'Dib edited the contributors of Magic Street Friday, October 30 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Added a contributor: Orson Scott Card: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: Orson Scott Card: (Primary Author)

Mua'Dib edited the contributors of Magic Street Friday, October 30 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Added a contributor: Orson Scott Card: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: Orson Scott Card: (Primary Author)

ScarTissue edited the books that influenced this book of Magic Street Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added A Midsummer Night's Dream

ScarTissue edited the contributors of Magic Street Monday, October 12 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lisa Slone: (Designer)

Shelfari edited the description of Magic Street Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine. In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family–a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard–and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic. Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the “real world” of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack’s challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists. Both a novel of constantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, Magic Street is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writer–a novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels. From the Hardcover edition.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Magic Street Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Orson Scott Card: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Magic Street Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The old man was walking along the side of the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, gripping a fistful of plastic grocery bags.