The door to Lost Pages
By: Claude Lalumière
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ChiZine Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781926851129
Subjects: Runaway children; Fiction; Booksellers and bookselling; Bookstores
Description: "On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. ... a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life. Aydee grows up at the reality-hopping Lost Pages, which seems to attract a clientele that is both eccentric and desperate. She is repeatedly drawn into an eternal war between enigmatic gods and monsters, until the day she is confronted by her worst nightmare: herself"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "The stories that compires this novella--all [connect] distally or centrally to a ... used-book store called Lost Pages"--P. 10.