Neverwhere: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
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Book Summary Information
Author: Neil GaimanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0060557818
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Neverwhere: A Novel
Book Review: Wonderfully odd...a dark, twisted take on Alice in Wonderland
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a really odd book, but wonderfully so. It's a story about two people really, Richard Mayhew and Lady Door. Richard has a fairly normal life in London. That is until he stops to help a girl named Door, who he finds bleeding on the street. This small act of kindness on Richard's part launches him into the world of London Below where all the people that fall through the cracks of London Above reside. Richard must now figure out how to survive in this place of darkness and monsters. He seeks out the one person he knows from London Below, Lady Door, to help him. But, she's on her own quest to determine who murdered her family and sent assassins after her.
Summary of Neverwhere: A Novel
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. --Nona Vero
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