SOURCE: A review of The Folk of the Air, in New York Times Book Review, January 18, 1987, p. 33.

In the review below, Jonas praises The Folk of the Air as a dazzling work that demands a sequel.

The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle, a fantasy novel set in contemporary California, mixes science and the supernatural so seamlessly that the bedazzled reader soon ceases to care which is which. Certainly none of the characters in this book stay up nights worrying about such distinctions.

The woman known as Sia is a psychotherapist of sorts who lives in a house with an indeterminate number of windows; describing her chents as "the displaced ones," she adds, "You can be uprooted from imaginary places too, you know." Joe Farrell, an attractive drifter who plays a mean lute when the mood strikes him, readily identifies himself as a man born out...