The Glass Town Game, Catherynne M. Valente
The Glass Town Game, Catherynne M. Valente
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The Glass Town Game

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2017


Synopsis

A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner

“Dazzling.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this “lovely, fanciful” (Booklist, starred review) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own.

This is their Glass Town…almost. Their Napoleon never rode into battle on a fire-breathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die; wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the question—Charlotte will never go back to that horrible school.

Together the Brontë siblings must battle their own imaginations in this magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.

About Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling creator of over forty works of fantasy and science fiction, including the Fairyland novels and The Glass Town Game. She has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), Hugo, and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, young son, and a shockingly large cat with most excellent tufts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 01, 2017

Because this is a Valente book, the writing is stunning. And, because this is a Valente book, The Glass Town Game is very... odd. I'm rounding up to three stars for this combination of one of today's best fantasy authors and the juvenilia of some of my favourite authors of all time, but I struggle t......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on July 25, 2018

Thought experiment: What would it be like to transport a handful of Regency-Era children from their playtime expositions into a very real and rich toyland stolen right out of their own noggins like Athena from Zeus's brow? Add an amazingly rich assortment of famous real and imaginary personages of th......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 14, 2021

Reading Catherynne Valente, I have felt many things: beguiled, repulsed, bewildered. This is the first book of hers in which I have felt bored. The Glass Town Game is a sort of children's portal fantasy in which the four Bronte siblings - Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne - are whisked away from......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 07, 2020

An enjoyable read - fun, entertaining, and filled with Brontë references.......more

Goodreads review by Trish on July 25, 2018

This book by Catherynne Valente is for younger readers. Supposedly. One of the great things about this author is that she doesn't let it show because she knows that little readers are just as smart and deserving of a good tale and complex characters as big readers are. We follow Charlotte, Bran(well)......more