| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781563890161 | | Publisher: Vertigo | | Publish Date: 11/1/1991 | | Buy.com Sku: 30286140 | | Item#: RLRPKR | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.25H x 6.5L x 0.5T |
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| | | This exquisite and enchanting volume provides easy entry for newcomers to Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN and to comics. Inside are the dreams of writers, fairies, felines and unemployed immortals, and the World Fantasy Award-winning tale "A MIdsummer-Night's Dream", which spotlights an unusual performance of William Shakespeare's play. Sixth printing. Graphic novel format. Mature readers.
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This graphic novel collects the third story arc in the SANDMAN series, issues #17-#20. Rather than being one continuous narrative, it is a set of tales exploring variations on the same theme: Ideas are both important and extremely powerful; in fact, if they're strong enough, they can do more than merely change one's perception of reality--they can alter reality itself. The four stories are told through four very disparate points of view: a self-involved, blocked contemporary writer, a preaching cat, William Shakespeare, and a suicidal superhero. The third story, concerning the inaugural performance of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and its unusual audience, won the World Fantasy Award for best short story in 1991. It was the first comic book to do so...and the last, as the judges, responding to outrage at the outcome, subsequently disqualified all future comic books as award entrants.
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