{"product_id":"neverwhere-isbn-9780380973637","title":"Neverwhere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read \u003cem\u003eNeverwhere\u003c\/em\u003e, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaiman’s adult fiction....American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along.”  —\u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author’s ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his “preferred text”—and including his special \u003cem\u003eNeverwhere\u003c\/em\u003e tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back”.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s darkly hypnotic first novel, \u003cem\u003eNeverwhere\u003c\/em\u003e, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying.\u003c\/p\u003e | Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.\u003cp\u003eSeveral hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and  abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is  Neverwhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door's entourage in their determined--and possibly fatal--quest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the dread journey ever-downward--through bizarre anachronisms and dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time--is Richard's final hope, his last road back to a \"real\" world that is growing disturbingly less real by the minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Tim Burton reimagined \u003cem\u003eThe Phantom of the Opera,\u003c\/em\u003e if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of  Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years. | \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gaiman . . . displays wit and whimsy as he comes up with a fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Delightful . . . . Inventively horrific . . . . [It] draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton . . . . The chimerical stuff of nightmare and daydream.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Neverwhere displays the kind of wit, mythological invention, and attention to the odd detail that will be familiar to anyone who has read Gaiman’s groundbreaking comic series the Sandman.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For those who have not read \u003ci\u003eNeverwhere\u003c\/i\u003e, the new edition is the one to read ... readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Excellent . . . . 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