| | Neverwhere (BBC Radio Collection) |  | Creators: Neil Gaiman, Gary Bakewell
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
Buy Used: $18.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  586 reviews
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 3
ISBN: 0563381701
EAN: 9780563381709
Publication Date: September 16, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: ****MP3-CDS****MP3-CDS****MP3-CDS****Narrated by Neil Gaiman. No wear or scratches, but not in original box, unabridged disc, satisfaction guaranteed.
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Amazon.com Review
Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. --Nona Vero
Product Description
Part fiction, part fantasy, part hyper-reality, this is a story about the Other London, where people live in the cellars and sewers and abandoned Underground lines. It is a London divided into "Baronies", in which the common names of London places take a new and strange reality.
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