""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 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
By:
K.J. Bishop, K J Bishop, Bishop Imprint: Bantam Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 208mm,
Width: 133mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 420g ISBN:9780553382914 ISBN 10: 0553382918 Publication Date:15 December 2004 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Etched City
An intricate, baroque, and memorable tale, filled with marvels and told with laconic elegance.
