Summary
“Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Mieville’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 WeeklyGwynn 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553382914 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553382918 |
| Author: | K.J. Bishop |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Spectra |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 133mm x 21mm |
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“Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Mi
“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
“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
About The Author
K.J. Bishop
K.J. Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her short stories have been published in Aurealis, Fables and Reflections, Borderlands, Album Zutique #1, Leviathan 4, The Alsiso Project, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, and the Serbian magazines Polaris and Znack Sagite. The Etched City is her first novel.
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