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FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 10:34 AM

Hello Everyone:

I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
by
David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
Da
ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
novels. Hope there's another fan out there!

Thanks in Advance,
D. DeMicco
Children's Librarian
[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us

FROM: "Jane Casto" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 11:13 AM

I would consider these works to usually be more in the nature of 'serious
literature'...more likely to be in general fiction...mostly connected with
Latin American authors...but a recent work that has elements of the
fantastic in a realistic setting is the River Midnight by Lillian Nattel.

tells the stories of women in a Polish stetel taking up to present but
starting at turn of century.

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FROM: "Rachel Singer Gordon" <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 11:30 AM

Try Charles de Lint - a lot of his stuff is kind of a cross between magical
realism and urban fantasy.

- rachel

At 10:37 AM 11/13/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello Everyone:
>
>I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
>fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
>include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
>by
>David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
>Da
>ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
>recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
>Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
>contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
>novels. Hope there's another fan out there!
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>D. DeMicco
>Children's Librarian
[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us
>

----------------------------
Rachel Singer Gordon
Franklin Park Public Library
[removed]@linc.lib.il.us
<A HREF="http://www.lisjobs.com">http://www.lisjobs.com</A>

FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 11:49 AM

FROM: "Diana Tixier Herald" <[removed]@wic.net>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 12:04 PM

There is actually a section in _Fluent in Fantasy_ (Libraries Unlimited,
1999 ISBN 1563086557) called Magic Realism in the Contemporary chapter.
Authors listed are James P. Blaylock, Francesca Lia Block, Charles de Lint,
Lisa Goldstein, Patrice Kindl, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Will Shetterly, and
Terri Windling. Some only have specific titles that fit in here so please do
consult the book. I know this is blatant self promotion but it does go to the
question asked. For more info about FiF check out
<A HREF="http://www.sff.net/people/dherald/">http://www.sff.net/people/dherald/</A>

--
Happy reading,
Di Herald
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Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading tastes."


Fiction_L wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
>
> I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
> fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
> include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
> by
> David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
> Da
> ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
> recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
> Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
> contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
> novels. Hope there's another fan out there!
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> D. DeMicco
> Children's Librarian
> [removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us

FROM: "Madeline Guzman" <[removed]@capaccess.org>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 12:30 PM

Two excellent novels by Israeli authors that include elements of mgical
realism are:

Four Mothers by Shifra Horn (about four generations of women affected
by a family curse)

The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev (about a group of Jewish socialists
settling in Palestine)

Madeline

Madeline T. [removed]@hotmail.com
Rockville, [removed]@capaccess.org
<A HREF="http://www.strictlyconcrete.com">http://www.strictlyconcrete.com<[removed]@erols.com

FROM: "Kathleen Martin" <[removed]@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 1:18 PM

Nights at the circus by Angela Carter.

Wasn't there a thread on this a while back?

Kathleen Martin
Co-ordinator of Community Services
Greater Victoria Public Library
Victoria, B.C.


On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Fiction_L wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
>
> I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
> fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
> include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
> by
> David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
> Da
> ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
> recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
> Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
> contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
> novels. Hope there's another fan out there!
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> D. DeMicco
> Children's Librarian
> [removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us
>
>
>
>

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 1:31 PM

Very similar to "Like Water for Chocolate" is "The Unfastened Heart" by
Lane von Herzen; also, "Senora Honeycomb" by Fanny Buitrago.

Kerry Pathy
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH

FROM: "Margaret Elwood" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 11/13/99, 2:47 PM

One of my favourites is Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella.

Margaret

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FROM: "Marianne Malinowski" <[removed]@ames.lib.ia.us>
REC'D: 11/14/99, 8:52 AM

Hi,

I think of Alice Hoffman's books as fitting the category of magical realism -
there is always an element in her books which reguires that you suspend belief.
I would also suggest novels by Gabriel Garcia Marguez.

Marianne Malinowski
Adult Collection Manager
Ames Public Library
(515)239-5652
e-mail: [removed]@ames.lib.ia.us

Fiction_L wrote:

> Hello Everyone:
>
> I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
> fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
> include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
> by
> David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
> Da
> ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
> recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
> Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
> contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
> novels. Hope there's another fan out there!
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> D. DeMicco
> Children's Librarian
> [removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us

FROM: "Nancy Eggert" <[removed]@chipublib.org>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 9:24 AM

Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are two writers whose books
almost always feature some sort of magical realism; Alice Hoffman's books
often do, too.

Nancy Eggert
Northtown Branch
Chicago Public Library

FROM: "Karen Dini" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 11:20 AM

Toni Morrison's books have magical realism in them - especially Beloved.


Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
235 N. Kennedy Dr.
Addison, IL 60101
630/458-3347
e-mail: [removed]@addison.lib.il.us

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiction_L [[removed]@nslsilus.org]
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:37 AM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: magical realism titles (fwd)
>
> Hello Everyone:
>
> I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
> fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings
> yet
> include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
> by
> David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved
> her
> Da
> ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
> recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like
> Herman
> Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
> contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or
> adult
> novels. Hope there's another fan out there!
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> D. DeMicco
> Children's Librarian
> [removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us
>
>

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 11:58 AM

Try Pete Hamill's, Snow in August. Setting is in New York, and has themes of
baseball and anti-semitism.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fiction_L [<A HREF="mailto:fictionl@nslsilus.ORG">mailto:fictionl@nslsilus.ORG</A>]
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 9:37 AM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: magical realism titles (fwd)


Hello Everyone:

I have recently become interested in (would you consider it a sub-genre of
fantasy?) magical realism: stories that are based in realistic settings yet
include an element of fantasy. I have read the children's novel Skellig,
by
David Almond, and just about everything by Francesca Lia Block (I loved her
Da
ngerous Angels stories). Asking around, I have come up with a few
recommendations, including Like Water for Chocolate, and authors like Herman
Hesse and Franz Kafka, but I am looking for something a little more
contemporary. I'll take any suggestions you have, children's, YA, or adult
novels. Hope there's another fan out there!

Thanks in Advance,
D. DeMicco
Children's Librarian
[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us

FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/16/99, 7:20 AM

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 11/16/99, 8:07 AM

Native American author Louis Owens writes WONDERFUL magical realism.


Marsha J. Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wi 53233-1436
Phone: 414/286-3010
FAX: 414/286-3102
Email: <[removed]@mpl.org>

"That All May Read"

>>> "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us> 11/16 7:38 AM >>>
Tina M Ansa Hand I Fan With, Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways
Marcia Douglas Madame Fate
Thomas King Green Grass, Running Water
Elizabeth Hand Waking the Moon
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Jostien Gaardner The Solitaire Mystery, Sophie's World

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