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Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (2008, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451461908

ISBN-139780451461902

eBay Product ID (ePID)61622341

Product Key Features

Book TitleYsabel

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFantasy / Contemporary, Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy / Epic

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorGuy Gavriel Kay

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for Ysabel "Stylish...vivid and satisfying with moments of sublime eeriness."-- Washington Post "Evocative writing ... fascinating characters ... will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers." -- Publisher's Weekly " Ysabel is the child of Kay's long love affair with Provence, the sunny, haunted region in the south of France which has enspelled him as it has so many... Kay knows this world intimately, and he presents it with a fresh, deft hand...everything fits."-- Locus Praise for the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay "[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay... His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces."-- The New Yorker "History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay."-- The Washington Post Book World "Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson "A storyteller on the grandest scale."-- Time Magazine , Canada, Praise for Ysabel "Will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " Ysabel is beyond honed. It reads like a perfectly cut jewel...It is very much like a great classic Hollywood film."-- Science Fiction Weekly "[Kay] turns out quality work every time. Ysabel is another testament to his storytelling skill."-- The Davis Enterprise "Outstanding characters, folklore, and action add up to another Kay must-read."-- Booklist "Kay constructs a suspenseful narrative, and he uses the atmosphere of Provence to good effect."-- The Toronto Star "Encapsulates my experience of reading Kay's work--that the sense of loss experienced when his world slips away and his tale is told will be profound, but the beauty of the experience is worth that loss."--Fantasy & Science Fiction More Praise for the Novels of Guy Gavriel Kay "[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay...His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces."-- The New Yorker "History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay."-- The Washington Post Book World "Kay shows why he's the heir to Tolkien's tradition."-- Booklist "Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson "A storyteller on the grandest scale."-- Time Magazine , Canada, Praise for Ysabel "Stylish...vivid and satisfying with moments of sublime eeriness."-- Washington Post "Evocative writing ... fascinating characters ... will enthrall mainstream as well as fantasy readers." -- Publisher's Weekly " Ysabel is the child of Kay's long love affair with Provence, the sunny, haunted region in the south of France which has enspelled him as it has so many... Kay knows this world intimately, and he presents it with a fresh, deft hand...everything fits."-- Locus Praise for the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay "[Read] anything by Guy Gavriel Kay... His strengths are strong characters and fantastic set pieces."-- The New Yorker "History and fantasy rarely come together as gracefully or readably as they do in the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay."-- The Washington Post Book World "Kay is a genius. I've read him all my life and am always inspired by his work."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson "A storyteller on the grandest scale."-- Time Magazine , Canada

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Grade ToUP

SynopsisThe multiple award-winning fantasy author of The Fionavar Tapestry brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times... Ned Marriner is in France with his father, a celebrated photographer shooting the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. While exploring the cathedral, Ned meets Kate, an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the area's history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife. "I think you ought to go now," he tells them. "You have blundered into a corner of a very old story..." In this ancient place, where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin, Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted story, as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, changing--and claiming--lives.