The Onion Girl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765303813)

2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist

In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.

At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.

"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.

Author: Charles de Lint
ISBN-10: 0765303817
ISBN-13: 9780765303813
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2002
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 67636 / Onion Girl


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 11/01/2002 pg. 24