Neverwhere Illustrated Edition

ISBN: 0062821334

Author: Gaiman, Neil

Condition: New

National BestsellerSelected as one of NPRS Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All TimeThe #1 New York Times bestselling authors dark classic of modern fantasy, beautifully illustrated for the first time by award-winning artist Chris Riddell, and featuring the authors preferred text and his Neverwhere tale, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.Published in 1997, Neil Gaimans first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK. It is now available here, and features strikingly atmospheric, painstakingly detailed black-and-white line art by Chris Riddell, one of Gaimans favorite artistic interpreters of his work.Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her familys slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Doors quest to save her world-and may well die trying.