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Title

No country for old gnomes / Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne.

Author

Hearne, Kevin

Publication

New York : Del Rey, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Dawson, Delilah S.

Description

xiv, 392 pages : map; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Go big or go gnome. TheNew York Timesbestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy return to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful, possessing tidy cardigans and no taste for cruelty. On the other side sit the halflings, proudly astride their war alpacas, carrying bags of grenades and hungry for a fight. And pretty much anything else. It takes only one halfling bomb and Offi Numminen's world is turned upside down--or downside up, really, since he lives in a hole in the ground. His goth cardigans and aggressive melancholy set him apart from the other gnomes, as does his decision to fight back against their halfling oppressors. Suddenly Offi is the leader of a band of lovable misfits and outcasts--from a gryphon who would literally kill for omelets to a young dwarf herbalist who is better with bees than with his cudgel to an assertive and cheerful teen witch with a beard as long as her book of curses--all on a journey to the Toot Towers to confront the dastardly villain intent on tearing Pell asunder. These adventurers never fit in anywhere else, but as they become friends, fight mermaids, and get really angry at this one raccoon, they learn that there's nothing more heroic than being yourself. In No Country for Old Gnomes, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne lovingly tweak the tropes of fantasy and fairy tales. Here you'll find goofy jokes and whimsical puns, but you'll also find a diverse, feminist, and lighthearted approach to fantasy that will bring a smile to your face and many fine cheeses to your plate"--
• "War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful, possessing tidy cardigans and no taste for cruelty. On the other side sit the halflings, proudly astride their war alpacas, carrying bags of grenades and hungry for a fight. And pretty much anything else. It takes only one halfling bomb, and Offi Numminen's world is turned upside down--or downside up, really, since he lives in a hole in the ground. His goth cardigans and aggressive melancholy set him apart from the other gnomes, as does his decision to fight back against their halfling oppressors. Suddenly Offi is the leader of a band of lovable misfits and outcasts--from a gryphon who would literally kill for omelets--a young dwarf herbalist who is better with bees than his cudgel to an assertive and cheerful teen witch with a beard as long as her book of curses--all on a journey to the Toot Towers to confront the dastardly villain intent on tearing Pell asunder. These adventurers never fit in anywhere else, but as they become friends, fight mermaids, and get really angry at this one raccoon, they learn that there's nothing more heroic than being yourself. In No Country for Old Gnomes, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne lovingly tweak the tropes of fantasy. Here you'll find goofy jokes and whimsical puns, but you'll also find a diverse, feminist, and lighthearted approach to fantasy that will bring a smile to your face and many fine cheeses to your plate"--

Series Statement

• The Tales of Pell ; [2]
• Dawson, Delilah S. Tales of Pell ; 2.

Genre/Form

Fantasy fiction.

Contents

In a Cave Just Positively Riddled with Blood and Gecko Toes -- Beset by Naked Halfling Malice -- Beneath the Sweaty Onion Flesh of a Rogue -- Across the Lea and Fuming in the Tenebrous Darkness -- On the Dew-Slobbered Slopes of the Honeymelon Hills -- Aclatter with a Surfeit of Brooms in a Strategic Mobile Habitat -- Inside an Oven Disturbingly Full of Bones -- Afoul of the Fearful Cabbage Pastor of Misree -- Through a Cold Blü Sky Bereft of Fluffee Egges -- Surrounded by Distressingly Beardless Chins and the Grumbles of the Elderly -- Under the Grim Weight of an Implacable Iron Toe Ring -- Under the Salubrious Influence of a Most Potent Boning Tea -- Flushed as Red as Lingonberries and Longing for a Redo -- Concerned About Hairy Palms and Sadly Lacking Eyeliner -- In a Very Pretty Place Where Foreshadowing Intimates Trouble -- Wrapped Warmly and Perhaps Too Tightly in the Arms of Unwanted Hospitality -- Athwart a Company of Tendentious Trolls and Halflings -- Under the Boastful and Bestial Eye of a Dignified Sylver Ungulate -- Surrounded by Clandestine Wonders and Embroidered Coveralls -- Suffering from a Distinct Lack of Toes on a Gurney on a Train in a Tunnel -- Under Assault by Salty Mermaids -- In a Shop Rife with Suspiciously Familiar Tchotchkes -- Outside the Grimful Walls of Bruding -- In the Steamy Demesne of Dwarvelish Delight -- Surrounded by Phantasmal Apparitions and Dusty Chiffarobes -- Mired in the Viscid Gelatin of the Figgish Fen -- Under the Obfuscated Guise of an Old Acquaintance -- High Above a Caprine Abattoir and Acres of Bad Architecture -- Near a Gourmet Selection of Hotly Contested Muesli -- Amidst a Whirlwind of Blood and Viscera and Beard Hairs -- Besplattered by Blood and Positively Riddled with Boons -- Over a Moist Black Cardigan Lovingly Embroidered with Bats -- Epilogue: Buffeted by Ebullient Winds of Surpassing Kindness.

Call Number

JFE 19-8840

ISBN

• 9781524797775
• 1524797774

LCCN

2018051284

OCLC

1065778829

Author

Hearne, Kevin, author.

Title

No country for old gnomes / Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne.

Publisher

New York : Del Rey, [2019]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Tales of Pell ; [2]

Dawson, Delilah S. Tales of Pell ; 2.

Added Author

Dawson, Delilah S., author.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8840