Trader, Charles de Lint
Trader, Charles de Lint
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Trader

Author: Charles de Lint

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 18 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2021

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Urban

Synopsis

Two lives. Two souls. One miracle.Max Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed. Max is solitary, quiet, responsible. Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser.When they inexplicably wake up in each other’s bodies, Johnny gleefully moves into Max’s comfortable and stable existence, leaving Max to pick up the pieces of a life he had no part in breaking.Penniless, friendless, homeless, Max begins a journey that will take him beyond the streets of the city to an otherworld of dreams and spirits, where he must confront both the unscrupulous Johnny Devlin and his own deepest fears.

About Charles de Lint

Charles de Lint is the award-winning author of fantasy fiction, including urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. He is best known for his fantasy novels in the Newford series, but he also writes novellas, short stories, poetry, lyrics, literary criticism, and a children’s book. Among his many awards are the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine Award, the Great Lakes Great Books Award, the Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, and the 2000 World Fantasy Award. His evocative novels have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary mythic fiction.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ambrosia on March 04, 2013

Charles de Lint is rapidly becoming one of my new favorite authors - frankly, given how long I've enjoyed similar urban fantasists like Neil Gaiman, I can't believe it's taken me this long to come across his stuff. And his handling of this premise makes it slightly horrifying and definitely compelli......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on August 16, 2007

This book was slightly more mature for De Lint. It still brings up his favorite "don't overlook the spirits in homeless people!" theme a lot, and his sentimental view points of emos, goths, slackers, and all those other disaffected groups. He finds redemption in them. Which is sweet on some level, b......more

Goodreads review by Vigasia on March 03, 2023

I didn't make as big impression on me as other Newford novels I've read so far, but it still was a good part of work I enjoyed reading and didn't get bored.......more

Goodreads review by Wing Kee on October 26, 2017

Great 2/3s and a wonder 1/3. World: De Lint's Newford is magical. It's dense, it's fully fleshed out, and a living breathing character in the story. The depth and tone and lived in feeling of the world is a delight. There are no info dumps, you are in the hands of a master storyteller and the world......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on September 04, 2018

Another great Newford book! In this story, Johnny, who is an unemployed, womanizing, party boy of a man falls asleep wishing for a more stable life has his dream intersected with Max, a man whose life is so about work that he is not even living it anymore, and they wake up in each other's bodies. Thi......more

Quotes

“A master of urban fantasy returns with one of his finest works…De Lint builds his story from a succession of well-chosen and well-expressed details…Wholly engaging.” Publishers Weekly

“Outstanding…It is hard to imagine urban fantasy done with greater skill, even by de Lint himself.” Booklist

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