Greenmantle (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Henri Diederick Hoefsmit
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—magical world
- Time of Work: The late 1980s
- Setting: Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Magic or magicians, Other worlds, 1980’s, Canada or Canadians, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Organized crime, Deer, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Plot
Greenmantle is relatively unusual in its combination of high pastoral myth and violent crime fiction. Charles de Lint often writes what might be called urban fantasy, but this novel is set primarily in or alongside a Canadian forest.
Frances (Frankie) Treasure has won a large lottery and has moved to a family home in the country with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Alice (Ali). Her former husband, Earl Shaw, a violent criminal who has worked with the Mafia, decides to take what money he can get from Frankie in order to finance a drug deal. Living next...
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