THE UNICORN SONATA
Peter S. Beagle

Autographed by the author.
Cover and 10 full-color interior paintings by Robert Rodriguez.
"Lost" Turner Publishing 1996 hardcover edition. 1st (and only) printing, 154 pages.
Title out of print.

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Please note: This book was pulled from distribution shortly after its 1996 release, when Turner Publishing went out of business. Of roughly 6,000 copies printed, only 2,000 or so ever reached readers, libraries, and stores. A while back we obtained all the copies that had been sitting in storage since 1996, and happily made them widely available at last. About 1,100 are still left.

THIS TITLE WILL NEVER BE REISSUED IN ITS CURRENT FORM. Peter S. Beagle has decided to rewrite it entirely from scratch, taking the story in a radically different direction, so it can become the first volume in a new four-book series. When our existing supply of this edition runs out, there will be no more.

A quarter century after the publication of his bestselling novel The Last Unicorn, Beagle (The Innkeeper's Song) returns to his fabled beasts for a charming fantasy initially set in contemporary Los Angeles. A misfit 13-year-old girl, Joey Rivera, hears mysterious music and encounters an even more mysterious boy who calls himself Indigo. Thus begins a quest that leads Joey to the faerie land of Shei'rah, source of the music and home of the Old Ones, unicorns who are menaced by blindness. Indigo is a unicorn who has preferred to remain in our world in human form, but he helps Josephine to take her grandmother to Shei'rah and to cure the plague of blindness. The characterizations are grand, enhanced by graceful prose laced with exquisite detail, and through both literary creativity and folkloric expertise where unicorns are concerned.

          — Publishers Weekly

Josephine "Joey" Rivera, a 13-year-old girl in suburban Los Angeles, visits her grandmother every weekend, does poorly in school, and helps clean up a music store in exchange for lessons. After a strange young man comes into the store to sell his horn, Joey hears his beautiful music late at night and, following the sound, crosses the Border into the magical world of Shei'rah. The unicorns are going blind, and Joey and her grandmother vow to help. This enchanting story of seeking a true home is highly recommended for fantasy collections.

          — Library Journal

Beautiful color illustrations by Robert Rodriguez pepper an enchanting story which tells of a young girl's journey to a magical land of unicorns. A misfit Los Angeles teen seems an unlikely participant in an alternate universe setting, but Beagle weaves a deft plot and creates a memorable scenario. Unlike his The Last Unicorn, people are the primary movers and protagonists here.

          — Midwest Book Review

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