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Company of Liars
by Maitland, Karen
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385341695
- ISBN 13
- 9780385341691
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About This Item
Delacorte Press, 2008. 1ST. HARDBOUND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. 1ST. 6.34 x 1.39 x 9.26 inches. pp. 465. Publisher: Delacorte Press; 1st edition (September 30, 2008) Language: English HARDBOUND: 465 pages ISBN-10: 0385341695 ISBN-13: 978-0385341691 Item Weight: 1.55 POUNDS Dimensions: 6.34 x 1.39 x 9.26 inches. In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales-an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller...from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all-propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming. Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.
Synopsis
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales--an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all--propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- BookQuest
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70079
- Title
- Company of Liars
- Author
- Maitland, Karen
- Format/Binding
- HARDBOUND
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1ST
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385341695
- ISBN 13
- 9780385341691
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Fiction / Historical / General / Fiction / Literary
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