From the author of Requiem (): a story about a boy growing up in England in the s--with one singular difference: He's haunted by a demonic Tooth Fairy that only he can see, but whose effects spill over into his family and friends. When seven-year-old Sam Southall of Redstone, near Coventry, loses a tooth, he's visited that night by a sinister, rank- smelling, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy; the . THE TOOTH FAIRY. By GRAHAM JOYCE (Tor; ) England’s brilliant Graham Joyce is yet another of those highly praised authors it’s taken me years to discover. I’m just glad I’ve finally gotten around to making Joyce’s acquaintance, and that I’ve read his novel THE TOOTH FAIRY. Graham Joyce's Tooth Fairy is a coming of age book in the same way as Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane is, or John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things. The genre is somewhere between horror and fantasy, but Joyce is using the power of fairy tale, myth and the shadow world to explore, with humour and with savagery the world of imagination, darkness and intensity which I suspect most of us /5().
Click to read more about The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Unfortunately for Sam (and the fairy) he awakens to find the tooth fairy skulking about his room and after a brief verbal exchange the fairy takes the tooth and leaves a sixpence in return (this is middle England. Editions for The Tooth Fairy: (Paperback published in ), X (Hardcover published in ), (ebook published in ), . Graham Joyce, based on his work I've read thus far, is clearly a master of the all-too-rare art of making readers turn the pages. With THE TOOTH FAIRY he's produced a near-masterpiece, a nostalgic account of a boy's coming of age in the company of the Tooth Fairy.
Graham Joyce's Tooth Fairy is a coming of age book in the same way as Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane is, or John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things. The genre is somewhere between horror and fantasy, but Joyce is using the power of fairy tale, myth and the shadow world to explore, with humour and with savagery the world of imagination, darkness and intensity which I suspect most of us were well aware of in childhood, and particularly in adolescence. The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce () on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce (). THE TOOTH FAIRY. By GRAHAM JOYCE (Tor; ) England’s brilliant Graham Joyce is yet another of those highly praised authors it’s taken me years to discover. I’m just glad I’ve finally gotten around to making Joyce’s acquaintance, and that I’ve read his novel THE TOOTH FAIRY.
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