Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

Marc Notes: Radio tie-in.; 8; Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.. Publisher Marketing: The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text" and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back"Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U. S. and the U. K. Now Gaiman's preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books. Neverwhere 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 the Neverwhere a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. The Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Door, a noblewoman whose family has been murdered, is on a quest to find the agent that slaughtered her family and thwart the destruction of this underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life, he must join the journey to save Door's world and find a way to survive. A hallucinatory fantasia of mystery, mythology, and terror that "draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton" (USA Today), Neverwhere is an "Alice in Wonderland with a punk edge" (Poppy Z. Brite), "that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune)." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2015 pg. 58 (EAN 9780062371058, Hardcover) Library Journal 11/15/2003 (EAN 9780767054355, DVD-Video) Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1939 (EAN 9780380789016, Mass Market Paperbound) Publishers Weekly 05/19/1997 pg. 63 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/15/1997 pg. 97 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/01/1997 pg. 822 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 05/15/1997 pg. 1541 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/1998 pg. 732 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1939 (EAN 9780380973637, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Gaiman, Neil Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, and is the recipient of numerous literary honors. Originally from England, he now lives in America.