Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The
Barker, Emily Croy
ISBN 10: 0670023663 ISBN 13: 9780670023660
Editore: Pamela Dorman Bks. / Viking, 2013
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563 pages; signed by the author on title page; dust jacket is in new clear protective mylar. Codice articolo 207443
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An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world?where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive
Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true.
Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally?and a reluctant one at that?is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student?and learning magic herself?to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her ?real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic.
For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true.
Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally?and a reluctant one at that?is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student?and learning magic herself?to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her ?real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic.
For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
Informazioni sugli autori:
After twenty years as a journalist, Emily Croy Barker had great fun turning her writing skills to fiction to produce The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, her first novel. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently executive editor at The American Lawyer magazine. She lives in New Jersey.
After twenty years as a journalist, Emily Croy Barker had great fun turning her writing skills to fiction to produceThe Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, her first novel. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently executive editor atThe American Lawyer magazine. She lives in New Jersey.
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Titolo: Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The
Casa editrice: Pamela Dorman Bks. / Viking
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Hard Cover
Illustratore: Tal Goretsky
Condizione: fine
Condizione sovraccoperta: fine
autografato: Signed by author
Edizione: 1st ptg.
Tipologia articolo: Hardcover (dj)