num_pages: 686
description: This standalone portal fantasy transports unsuccessful rockstar Theo Vilmos from modern California to a land of magic and mystery.Returning to the fantasy genre that made him a coast-to-coast best-selling phenomenon, Tad Williams writes this stand-alone contemporary fantasy novel, set in Northern California--and also in the strange parallel world that coexists in the farthest reaches of the imagination. Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical charisma, both onstage and off--but now, life has taken its toll on Theo.Hitting an all-time low, he seeks refuge in a isolated cabin in the woods. While there, he reads an odd memoir written by a dead relative who believed he had visited the magical world of Faerie. And before Theo can disregard the account as the writings of a madman, he, too, is drawn to a place beyond his wildest dreams...a place that will be, and has always been, his destiny.
language: English
title: The War of the Flowers
titlecomplete: The War of the Flowers (Daw Book Collectors, 1225)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Fae, Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fairies, High Fantasy
ratings_count: 9146
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel
publisher: DAW