A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope.
In 2000, his story collection Moonlight and Vines won the World Fantasy Award..
About the Author: Charles de Lint \'s evocative novels, including Moonheart , Memory and Dream , Forests of the Heart , and The Onion Girl , have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim.
Penniless, friendless, homeless, Leonard begins a journey that will take him beyond the streets of the city to an otherworld of dreams and spirits, where he must confront both the unscrupulous Johnny Devlin and his own deepest fears.
When they inexplicably wake up in each other\'s bodies, Johnny gleefully moves into Leonard\'s comfortable and stable existence, leaving Leonard to pick up the pieces of a life he had no part in breaking.
Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser.
Leonard is solitary, quiet, responsible.
Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed.
Leonard Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars.
A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope
