LEADER 02515oam 2200289z- 450 001 9910155848103321 010 $a1-907389-40-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000976984 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781907389405 035 $a(Exl-AI)993710000000976984 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000976984 100 $a20190224c2017uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 $aMetronome 210 $cUnsung Stories 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 330 $a A deep and often beautiful foray into the nature of dreaming, with imaginative overtones of Gaiman and Borges. Lucy Hounsom, author of The Worldmaker Trilogy It is for the entities known as Sleepwalkers to cross the doors between dreams, and hunt the nightmares that haunt sleeping minds. Theirs is a world of impossible vistas, where reason is banished and only the imagination holds sway: the connected worlds that all sleeping minds inhabit, and the doors that lead between. But tonight, one Sleepwalker has gone rogue. Abandoning her sworn oath to protect the dreamscapes, she has devoted herself to another cause, threatening to unleash a nightmare older than man. The only chance of stopping her lies with a man named Manderlay. Once a feted musician, William Manderlay is living his twilight years in an Edinburgh care home, riddled with arthritis and filled with a longing for his youth, for the open seas, and for the lost use of his hands and the violin he has always treasured. For too long now, Manderlay's nights have been coloured by dark, corrupted dreams: dreams of leprous men in landscapes plucked from his memory, of dark figures seeking him on city streets. His comrades in the retirement home believe Manderlay is giving in to age and senility - but the truth is much worse. For in dreams, maps are made from music - and it just might be that one of William Manderlay's forgotten compositions holds the key to unleashing the nightmare that holds the world of dreams in balance. The Sleepwalkers are zoning in on him. He might be their saviour, or his music might be their damnation... From the acclaimed author of  Dark Star  comes a literary fantasy like no other. 606 $aNightmares$7Generated by AI 606 $aDreams in literature$7Generated by AI 615 0$aNightmares 615 0$aDreams in literature 676 $a823.92 700 $aLangmead$b Oliver$01747648 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155848103321 996 $aMetronome$94179828 997 $aUNINA