Peter S. Beagle's The Folk of the Air

[silk_noir]

This is a book that I've been mad for ever since I read it...uh... maybe 24 years ago.  I'd read a review of it and another book in a copy of the SCA publication Tournaments Illuminated, in an article about the SCA in fiction.  The other book, Murder at the War, by Mary Monica Pulver I also have kicking around here somewhere--I read it maybe twice

Comments

[huladavid]

I think I understand what you mean. Shortly after Brokeback Mountain came out I read an essay by Annie Proulx where wrote about how much she appreciated the details Ang Lee put in the movie. She used a line that went something along the lines of "the truth of the coffeepot" that I fell in love with.

I never did much in the way of SCA, but I've done my bit of buckskinning.

[ex_triciasu]

It's been a long time since I read this but I absolutely loved it. Utterly immersive and unforgettable.

[sartorias]

I remember enjoying this one.

[martinhesselius]

<3

[tim_pratt]

It's my favorite of Beagle's novels (and that's saying something). It doesn't hurt that I read it right after I moved to the Bay Area, living in towns that provided much of the DNA for Beagle's Avicenna.