Vögelein : clockwork faerie /
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Author / Creator: | Irwin, Jane. |
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Imprint: | Ann Arbor, Mich. : Fiery Studios, c2003. |
Description: | 167 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6620064 |
Summary: | When Jakob, Vögelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in hissleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone towind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live - unlessshe can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, shecontinues to wind down until she stops -- and then her memories of the pastthree hundred years will quickly slip away, leaving her a simple automatonunable to speak or move on her own. In her search for a new Guardian,Vögelein must grapple with her own past, her current daily survival and atrue Faerie who has taken an instant disliking to her, all so that she will notlose her memories -- and her self. |
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Item Description: | "Most of the material contained within was originally printed in issues 1-5 of the magazine Vögelein." |
Physical Description: | 167 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: | 0974311006 9780974311005 |