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Black Wine
by Candas Jane Dorsey
ISBN: 0312861818
ISBN-13: 9780312861810
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Somehow "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.
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"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 285
Publisher's Notes
A 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.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1997. Nice tight copy with usual library markings. Text is clean and unmarked. DJ has mylar protective cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. ( more information)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor, 1997. Hard Cover. Good - Ex-Library/Fair. Slight edgewear, corners lightly bumped, blank front end paper neatly removed, ink marks on top page edges, dust jacket has a proctor and is taped to covers of book, sticker on spine. ( more information)
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New York:: Tor:, 1997,. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dj,. It's a first novel. It's a dark fantasy. It's written by this nice woman who lives in Canada and edits Tesseracts Books. Rather, a futuristic world that has fallen into decay. ( more information)
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NY: TOR (Tom Doherty Assoc), 1997. price intact on inside flap of dj in protective mylar cover, 285 pp, "...a complex fable about sex and friendship and storytelling and violence. It is scary and dreamy and compassionate by turn..." Author's debut novel. AL003. ISBN: 0312861818. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo. Science Fiction Fantasy Sexual Violence Women Relationships. ( more information)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 1997. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Debut dark fantasy novel about women who come to terms with their identity in a barbarous world that is both cruel and wonderful.. First Edition- First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ( more information)
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