
Fool on the Hill
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Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. A bestselling author in search of a new story, he sees his life as a modern-day fairy tale starring himself as a would-be knight trying to woo a lovely maiden-or, actually, two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. But he's not quite in control of the narrative.
There's another writer with even greater influence on campus. The unseen Mr. Sunshine is an eternal, semi-retired deity who's been fashioning his own story for centuries. He has all his characters in place: dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine's world comes to fabulous and violent life, how can Stephen decide his own fate if it's already being plotted by a god?
An epic of life and death, good and evil, love and sorcery, Fool on the Hill lands Matt Ruff happily on the shelf between Tom Robbins and J. R. R. Tolkien for every lover of the "funky and fantastical" ( New York magazine).
"Inspired...rich in flavorful language...[a] dazzling tour de force." - San Francisco Chronicle
"The plot comes together like a brilliant clockwork toy." - Locus
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- Intro
- FOOL ON THE HILL
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- List of Major Characters
- FOOL ON THE HILL
- 1866 Twilight in the Valley
- BOOK ONE: THE ROAD TO THE HILL
- The Patron Saint of Daydreams
- Luther on the Road to Heaven
- Princess Aurora . . .
- . . . and Lady Caliope
- A Sidetrip Through Hell THROUGH HELL
- The Ride of the Bohemians
- A Peek at Mr. Sunshine's Library
- At Heaven's Gate
- BOOK TWO: TALES OF AUTUMN
- 1866 Outside the Bone Orchard
- The First Week
- A Kiss in the Dark
- Making Flippy-Floppy
- Two Houses
- Jinsei and the Black Knight
- Sleeptalking
- Ragnarrok's Dream
- Stephen George and the Dragon
- The Hallowe'en Party
- The Romance of the Bone
- All-Nighter
- Winter Draws Near
- Calliope Exits EXITS
- George in Hell
- Deus Ex Machina
- Setting Things Up
- Before the Storm
- BOOK THREE: PANDORA'S BOX
- 1866 Inside the Bone Orchard
- Hobart Visits the Boneyard
- Northern Lights
- Surprise Packages
- Messages, and a Parliament of Vermin
- The Killing Hour
- The Next Day
- An eye to the Ides
- Bohemian Requiem
- Blajacks's Lament
- Rasferret and the Black Knight
- Hamlet Sees a Ghost
- On the Road
- The Dark Rain
- The Painful Virtue of Patience
- At the Hospital
- Fractor Draconis
- BOOK FOUR: THE IDES OF MARCH
- 1866 At the Hills Crest
- Dawn of the Ides: The Death
- The Spider's Web
- Hobart Tells a Final Tale
- The Battle of Willard Straight Hall
- St. George and the Dragon
- A Kiss at Daybreak
- Epilogue
- Back Cover
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