Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint

De Lint served as Writer-in-residence for two public libraries in Ottawa and has taught creative writing workshops for adults and children in Canada and the United States.

He has written critical essays, music reviews, opinion columns and entries to encyclopedias, and he's been the main book reviewer for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction since 1987. Modern Library's Top 100 Books of the 20th Century poll, conducted by Random House and voted on by readers, put eight of de Lint's books among the top 100.ĭe Lint is a poet, folklorist, artist, songwriter and performer.

Renowned as one of the trailblazers of the modern fantasy genre, he is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, and White Pine awards, among others. Only Johnny Faw, a hadsome fiddler unaware of his magical gifts, has the power to set them free.Ĭharles de Lint is the much beloved author of more than seventy adult, young adult, and children's books. But now a ghastly creature has stolen that power and enslaved the Fair Folk-and Jacky Rowan herself. There, to her dismay, she is hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan, a once-and-future trickster hero whose lot is to save the Elven Courts from unimaginable evilĭrink Down the Moon (1990) / novel by Charles de Lint: Once the realm of Faerie drew its power from the Moon herself. Jack, the Giant-Killer (1987) / novel by Charles de Lint: A faceless gang of bikers on Wild Hunt through the streets of present-day Ottawa hurtles young Jacky Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land of Faerie.

Mr de Lint has earned critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende. Hurled into the mythical land of Faerie by a faceless gang of bikers, young Jacky Rowan is stunned when she is immediately hailed as the legendary hero Jack of Kinrowan and directed to save the land from a treacherous evil force. Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer / Drink Down the Moon -in an acknowledged classic of contemporary fantasy, this book brings together in one volume Charles de Lint's rollicking saga of wild faerie magic on the streets of the city.

Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles de Lint