House of Storms - Couverture souple

MacLeod, Ian R.

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321 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743462475 ISBN 13 : 9780743462471

Editeur : Pocket Books, 2006

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Revue de presse :

is a monumental work of science fiction far superior to Asimov. MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien' Guardian
A wonderful, vivid, literate novel' STarburst
‘A monumental work of science fiction far superior to Asimov. MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien’ Guardian 26/02
‘With his follow-up to The Light Ages, Ian R MacLeod mixes up Mervyn Peake-esque events in the country pile at Invercombe with a full-blown English Civil War ... As fantasy continues on its long, painfully slow journey from faux medievalism, it’s a dark, richly textured delight. MacLeod will be a name to watch.’ SFX 01/03
'Macleod is one of the finest prose stylists around . . . his writing is unfailingly elegant, full of brilliantly realised English landscapes, deftly sensitive characterisations, luminously reworked fairy tales, and poetic elegies to lives and opportunities lost . . . amongst the best fantastic writing today. THE HOUSE OF STORMS is that uncommon thing, a sequel to be treasured as much as its precursor' LOCUS MAGAZINE, 02/05
'The House of Storms sees MacLeod's already strong writing take another notable step forward . . . Beautiful, turbid and often very rich, but never stifling prose flows from the page at a cracking rate of knots. Its fast-turning pages brim with joy and pain, love and war -- in short with humanity, a bit of everyday magic that shines brightly amongst the rather less common variety. MacLeod's current trajectory seems set to take him into the very top rank of modern British writers' VECTOR MAGAZINE (VECTOR Recommended Read) JULY ISSUE

Quatri�me de couverture :

From the author of the acclaimed The Light Ages, an enthralling tale of love and power
When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease.
The age of aether still reigns, its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aether's strange influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Ages of Industry, that lie uneasy at England's troubled heart. And it is to Einfell that Alice turns in desperation, to plead for her son's life to one who once trusted her, and suffered the consequences.
Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London he is drawn to the world of nature and to a fisherman's daugher, Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it understands itself. But his mother will not let love stand in the way of her lust for power even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war.
'The House of Storms is that uncommon thing, a sequel to be treasured as much as its pecursor' Locus
'MacLeod's prose is as rich as treacle and equally black' Guardian
'Wonderful...Dickens with a touch of Alan Garner and a glimpse of Ghormenghast' Christopher Fowler

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