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The Etched City

By Bishop, K. J.

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The Etched City

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"Combine equal parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Chine Miéville's Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you'll get some idea of this disturbing, decadent first novel."-Publishers Weekly Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just-and lost-causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . . "The plot, with its stories-within-stories and its offhand descriptions of wonders and prodigies, brings to mind the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges."-Locus
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
402
Release Date:
2004-11-23
Publication Date:
2004-11-23
Publisher:
Random House Worlds
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0553382918
ISBN13:
9780553382914
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
462 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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