Magic Street.MAGIC STREET. Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24 1951)[1] is an American author, working in several genres, but primarily known for his science fiction work. His Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead . 2005. Read by Mirron E. Willis. 11 cds. 11.5 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-7861-7826-4. $99.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA In a dramatic departure from his futuristic tales of the extraterrestrial, Card has created a contemporary urban fantasy set in a comfortable Los Angeles African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. community, featuring three young male protagonists and their friends, family and neighbors. While race relations and stereotyping are issues not dodged in this novel, the predominant theme is drawn from William Shakespeare: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Newborn Mack Street, found in a plastic shopping bag, grows up with a strange gift. He can dream the deepest desires of the people around him, though they come true in bitterly ironic ways. For Mack is a tool in the war between Oberon, King of the Fairies and his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. Queen Titania, and both Fairyland and Baldwin Hills are battlegrounds. Dreams give life its magic, cause us to act, and fuel our reality, Card tells us, and he does so in a way guaranteed to make YAs curious about A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and . Willis gets the many voices in this intriguing novel exactly right. Card's afterword explains how he wrote this book. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY |
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