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Black Wineby Candas Jane Dorsey
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Book DescriptionTor Books. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! Book summarySomehow "the waif," as she is known, has lost her memory, and with only a deranged, caged old woman for company in the Land of the Dark Isles, she has no hope of regaining it. When she is relocated to the evil regent's palace, she begins to reclaim some of her memory and to confront her turbulent, strange, and impressive past.Media Reviews"A tantalizing, distinctive, sexy and beautifully rendered first novel." -- Kirkus "A skilled artist, deeply uneasy with the whole crude business of narrative rhetoric, the strongest argument she presents...is the beauty of her own prose style." -- Gwyneth Jones "This story of four women is complex, but well worth the read....In this feminist tale of every woman's struggle with her past, present and future, Dorsey explores the feminine spirit in a fantasy world that convincingly mirrors our own." -- Rapport "Although 'Black Wine' is no easy read, it is well worth the effort it requires. Candas Dorsey has created an extraordinary universe, one in which all the possibilities are both frightening and limitless." -- Deborah Peifer, Lambda Book Report Publisher NotesA novel of women's slavery in a barbarian land--and a mother and daughter who must escape to freedom. Why is there an old woman in a hanging cage for punishment, keeping a journal written in blood? Candas Jane Dorsey has written an ambitious, feminist first novel in the tradition of Joanna Russ and Suzy McKee Charnas about women coming to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world. Why is there an old woman, in a hanging cage for punishment, keeping a journal written in blood? Candas Jane Dorsey has written an ambitious, feminist novel about women coming to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world. Dorsey's women travel across the world, from the slave dens to the merchant cities, across seas by ship and by dirigible, to isolated mountain villages and back again. "But there remains provocative ambiguity as the story progresses. There is a woman exiled from her family, a mother who has abandoned her daughter, an old woman in a cage, a young women slave on a lord's estate who does not remember her past. How many of them are the same woman? Other Recommended Books
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