--?GERALDINE BROOKS What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, --????? The Last Days of Magic From the Hardcover edition.
The last days of magic: a novel
โ Scribed by Mark Tompkins
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Viking
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 541 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0143110012
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โฆ Synopsis
**"A fantastical treat."
--PEOPLE
"Fantastic . . . an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read."
--DIANA GABALDON, THE WASHINGTON POST
"Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins's amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride." **
-- KAREN JOY FOWLER
"Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange."
**-- GERALDINE BROOKS
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