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A Wild Ride Through the Night

Name: A Wild Ride Through the Night
Author: Walter Moers
ISBN: 9781441758095

by Walter Moers

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Synopsis

Product Description [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Translated from the German by John Brownjohn] [Read by Bronson Pinchot] In the wake of the breakout successes of Walter Moers' The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures, and The City of Dreaming Books, Moers is back with this fourth book, the tumultuous tale of a little boy and his encounter with Death. Moers bases his utterly delightful story on twenty-one woodcuts by the inimitable Gustave Doré, the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. In a world between legend and dream, A Wild Ride through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of twelve-year-old Gustave, a boy who aspires to one day be a great artist. When a disaster at sea puts Gustave in the uncompromising hands of Death, he has the choice to give up the ghost or take on a series of six impossible tasks. Gustave embarks on a strange and perilous journey during which he must save a princess from an angry dragon, pull a tooth from the Most Monstrous of All Monsters, fly over the moon, and even, somehow, meet his own self. Will Gustave's creativity and imagination be able to save him from his fate? Review ''German author Moers has constructed a surreal adventure story . . . Moers infuses his tale with humor and life lessons.'' --Publishers Weekly''A Wild Ride through the Night by popular German author Walter Moers could also be called a fantastic voyage through the author's imagination . . . Like the equally lovely and absurd Alice in Wonderland, A Wild Ride through the Night captures that rough, scary transition we all go through on the downhill slide toward death by way of puberty.'' --Barnes & Noble, Editorial Review''A picaresque tale of adventure and magic.'' --Library Journal About the Author WALTER MOERS was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter, and sculptor. The world of Zamonia that he created is currently being adapted for the screen. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.