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Returning to the fantasy genre that made him a coast-to-coast best-selling phenomenon, Tad Williams has written a new stand-alone contemporary novel set in Northern California-and also in the strange parallel world that coexists in the farthest reaches of the imagination.
Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical, charisma both onstage and off-but now, life has t... MORE
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Goodnight Nobody | |
| Clouds | p. 7 |
| The Silent Primrose Maiden | p. 23 |
| Descent | p. 26 |
| The Hungry Thing | p. 44 |
| Book | p. 51 |
| A Corruption of Moonlight | p. 69 |
| Woods | p. 74 |
| Runaway Capacitor | p. 89 |
| Visitors | p. 95 |
| Last Exit to Fairyland | |
| Lar... MORE | p. 111 |
| A Disturbance in The Forcing Shed | p. 127 |
| The Hollyhock Chest | p. 139 |
| A Change in the Weather | p. 160 |
| Penumbra Station | p. 179 |
| The Plains of Great Rowan | p. 201 |
| Poppy | p. 221 |
| The Hothouse | p. 240 |
| Sidewalks of New Erewhon | p. 246 |
| A Holiday Visit | p. 269 |
| Among the Creepers | p. 273 |
| In Thornapple House | p. 295 |
| Status Quo Ante | p. 302 |
| The Shadow on the Tower | p. 324 |
| Flower War | |
| The Bus Stop on Pentacle Street | p. 347 |
| A Million Sparks | p. 356 |
| Losing a Friend | p. 371 |
| Button's Bridge | p. 388 |
| Goblin Jazz Bandwagon | p. 411 |
| The Hole in the Story | p. 430 |
| Family Matters | p. 447 |
| In the Bloom Years | p. 458 |
| Trendy Fungus | p. 481 |
| The Last Breath They Took | p. 505 |
| The Lost Child | |
| Interlude with Van Gogh Stars | p. 523 |
| A Sort of Reunion | p. 534 |
| changelings | p. 550 |
| The Ebony Box | p. 565 |
| The Broken Stick | p. 579 |
| Stepchild | p. 591 |
| Strawflower Square | p. 605 |
| The Cathedral | p. 622 |
| Fairytale Ending | |
| Farewell Feast | p. 645 |
| The Limits of Magic | p. 665 |
| Index of People, Places, and Things | p. 677 |
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