The Fall of The Kings
One critic described Ellen Kushner's first novel, Swordspoint, as "the book we might have had if Noel Coward had written a vehicle for Errol Flynn." Such elegant swashbuckling is evident too in The Fall of the Kings, Kushner's new collaboration with former Renaissance specialist Delia Sherman. In...
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One critic described Ellen Kushner's first novel, Swordspoint, as "the book we might have had if Noel Coward had written a vehicle for Errol Flynn." Such elegant swashbuckling is evident too in The Fall of the Kings, Kushner's new collaboration with former Renaissance specialist Delia Sherman. In this lush, richly woven novel, the meeting of tormented nobleman Lord Theron Campion and Basil St. Cloud, a young university scholar, promises to revive the age of wizardry in a world ill prepared to receive it.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307418463 (0307418464)
Publish date: December 18th 2007
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Urban Fantasy,
Romance,
Speculative Fiction,
Glbt,
Queer,
M M Romance,
Gay,
Fantasy Of Manners,
Mannerpunk
Series: Riverside Series (#3)
Well, that was … different? Sort of like [b:Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell|14201|Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell|Susanna Clarke|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410A553CR8L._SL75_.jpg|3921305] lite, with fewer footnotes but more sex?
A dissolute young nobleman has unwise affairs and become entangled in ancient cultic ritual practices.I am positive that Kushner was inspired to write this by The Golden Bough or From Ritual to Romance.
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