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Kraken by China Miéville (2010, Hardcover DJ 1st/1st Acceptable/Goo
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A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. The binding may be slightly damaged but integrity is still intact. Possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
- Buy It NowKraken by China Miéville (2010, Hardcover DJ 1st/1st Acceptable/Good+ ExLib)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller notes
- Year
- 2010
- Subject
- Fantasy
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780345497499
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
034549749X
ISBN-13
9780345497499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038285573
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kraken
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-013893
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
Bestselling author Miville returns to his roots in this exciting, no-holds-barred fantasy set in modern-day London. Crowds throng to the British Museum to see the dead Kraken, a giant squid, but when it goes missing, a breathless search for the monster leads to strange, magical criminals and mythical cults., With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about--or prevent--the End of All Things. In the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux -- better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens--human and otherwise--are adept in magic and murder. There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity--and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC--the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit--a branch of London's finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city's entrails. There is Grisamentum, London's greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying--yet darkly charismatic--demonic duo. All of them--and others--are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
LC Classification Number
PR6063.I265K73 2010
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- s***d (10)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe packaging was the best I’ve ever seen. It was wrapped in about four different layers which kept the book from getting damaged. The Baal came as described. Shipping was a little long but not too bad.
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Seller feedback (855)
- s***d (10)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe packaging was the best I’ve ever seen. It was wrapped in about four different layers which kept the book from getting damaged. The Baal came as described. Shipping was a little long but not too bad.
- r***y (175)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem as described, packaged well and quickly shipped.
- n***r (64)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem as described in post. Great communication from seller and would purchase from them without hesitation.SIGNED Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk (2003 Hardcover w/ DJ Like New) (#266431313357)