Company of Liars: A Novel of the Plague
by Maitland, Karen
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0141031913
- ISBN 13
- 9780141031910
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Synopsis
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales--an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all--propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HISFIC88272
- Title
- Company of Liars: A Novel of the Plague
- Author
- Maitland, Karen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0141031913
- ISBN 13
- 9780141031910
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Karen Maitland, Plague
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction; Historical Fiction;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.