Memory and Dream (Newford)
by Charles de Lint
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Author: Charles de LintEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-02-20
ISBN: 0765316781
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Orb Books
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Book Review: A Powerful and Emotional Tale
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a very large book for de Lint and really the first of the Newford novels that de Lint wrote. We get to hear about Jilly, Allan and Kathy, but the protagonist is Izzy. It is her story of how she came to Newford got caught up with all her friends and how she learned how to paint under the tutelage of the famous painter and reclusive Ruskin.
The story starts off in 1992 when Allan asks Isabelle to come back to Newford to illustrate a collection of stories by their old and deceased friend Kathy. The story goes back and forth from the present in 1992, to the mid seventies and up till 1980. Most of the story is told in the past where Izzy must cope with here life and how it got to where it is, which is reclusion on her home in Wren Island after she had put Newford and all her friends behind after Kathy's death.
The past deals with Ruskin and how he teaches Izzy to paint magical paintings where the artist can open a path into another world and bring her paintings to life. She calls them numea, and they are living beings that look exactly like the painting. Rusking though is a bad guy and is teaching Izzy to bring them into the world for his own reasons. The past is told so Izzy can deal with all the problems, Kathy's death, Ruskin, and her ability to lie to herself to hide bad things that have happened to her, and she needs a resolution about the numea and the one called John who was once her boyfriend.
As you can see the story deals with a lot of complicated problems for the protagonist, and the secondary characters also deal with heavy subject matter. This is a happy story in places, but also a dark one, and can be almost horrific in some instances, as it's a tale of overcoming tragedy. The length of the novel allows for a lot of topics to be fleshed out for the characters, and while at first I didn't understand why the book had to be so long, in the end you realize it was all worth it. This was a book I was sad to put down because I didn't want it to end.
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