A Handful of Coppers: Collected Early Stories, Heroic Fantasy

Rating:
Summary: Not nearly as good as other Charles De Lint
Review: A Handful of Coppers is better than many books I've happily read to the end, but it is nowhere near what, say, his Newford novels are. This book is ordinary, while those are extraordinary.

Rating:
Summary: Great for de Lint collectors and students
Review: This is a reader-demand collection of stories, some published as much as 25 years ago and long out of print, and some never before published at all. The stories are all great reading, even if the author is charmingly apologetic about their quality. His imagination shines like the light of multi-colored moons over undiscovered worlds. The new cover art and original illustrations are a pure delight.

Mr. de Lint's work, both old and new, is particularly appealing to me as a student of story-telling in the long tradition. I am definitely a "glutton for punishment", as he describes us, and hope for more.