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(More customer reviews)Max, you've gone too far this time! Though he doesn't know why, one day Max Trader wakes up and realizes that he's been transported into the body of a homeless derelict, Johnny Devlin, who's now all showered and shaved and living in Max's very nice lifestyle. The two men are at a standstill, and Max realizes how tough it is to be homeless and yet, we all of us can do something to change our life, even if our "trading partner" (Johnny) isn't quite ready to give us back our own life yet. TRADER shines with all of Charles De Lint's trademark magic and color. His town is like one designed by Thomas Kinkade, the "painter of light," if Kinkade had been a Canadian citizen; you will feel you're at home right away, even if your own life has been very different than that of the perplexed, bewitched characters of Ontario.
Do you remember THE IVORY AND THE HORN? In that book Coyote descsibres the mystic little flute player, the trickster, and he says, "He's a fertility symbol, now, very mythopoetic and all, but it wasn't always that way. Used to be a trader, a travelling merchant, hup-two-three. That hunched back was actually his pack of trading goods, the flute his way of approaching a settlement, tootle-toot-toot, it's only me, no danger, except if you were some nubile young thing." I think perhaps for De Lint the concept of the "trader" was percolating in his mind lo, these many years, and only now has he expanded it into novel length. He has drunk deep from the wells of Northrop Frye and Lord Dunsany and he has fermented his own bubbly brew of identity and inspiration.
If you are looking for a place of nature inside the city, come to the world of TRADER and lie back and see the stars through the neon.
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