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Elizabeth Knox
ISBN: 9780099273899
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
Edition: New edition
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It's Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. They meet again every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date.
It's Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. They meet again every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels.
| ISBN | 0099273896 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780099273899
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 176 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Publication date | 02 Mar 2000 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | Reissue date | 11 Jun 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | Non-book description | B | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823 | |
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"Original, often astonishingly vivid...Xas is one of the best angels since William Blake's."--Nina Auerbach, "The New York Times Book Review" "Daringly exploring the spiritual worth of sesnual pleasure, New Zealand writer Knox's imaginative, imagistic tale soars."--"Entertainment Weekly" "Rich prose and an original plot...a delightful, thought-provoking read."--Robin Vidimos, "The Denver Post" "Strangely compelling...multilayered and challanging...[The Vintner's Luck] is not your typical angel story."--David Tedhams, "The Washington Post Book World" "Elizabeth Knox spreads her odd and original gossamer over many things....[Her] imagination resembles one of those Burgundy slopes, mysteriously sunned and fed, that produces a vintage unlike any other."--Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"  Be the first to write a customer review
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