King of Morning, Queen of Day
โ Scribed by Ian McDonald
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 304 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0553290495
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โฆ Synopsis
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and the Prix Imaginales: Three generations of women share a mysterious powerone that threatens to destroy them
In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: She reads, shes bored with school, and she has a powerful imagination. Then things begin to change. Her imagination is so powerful, in fact, that she wills a faerie into existencean ability called mythoconsciousness. Its this power that opens a dangerous door that she will never want to close, and whose repercussions will reverberate across time.
First to be affected is her daughter, Jessica, who, in the mid-1930s, finds that she must face her mothers power by using the very same gift against her. Then, in the near future, Jessicas granddaughter, Enye, must end the cycle once and for allbut it may prove too powerful to overcome.
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ISBN : 9780553290493
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