Description

Award winning writer and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s impressed retelling of an old tale weaves fantasy and miracle right into a vibrant modern book concerning the secrets of the human heart. Filled with riddles, ballads, and marvelous changes, this is actually the classic story of the bard whose skills make him a two-edged other-worldly gift.A minstrel lives by his words, his songs, and occasionally by his lies. Nevertheless when the daring and talented young Thomas the Rhymer stimulates the wish of the Queen of Elfland, he discovers that words aren't enough to keep him from his destiny. Opulence—and captivity—he discovers finally what it's to become really human into her world of wonder, whilst He is swept by the Queen not even close to the folks he's known and loved.