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Tooth and Claw
β Scribed by Amazon.com (Firm);Walton, Jo
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates; Tor Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0765319519
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β¦ Synopsis
A tale of contention over love and money --among dragons
Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace , acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw , a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.
Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.
Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which...
β¦ Subjects
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
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