Tooth and Claw
Tooth and Claw
Tooth and Claw Campbell Award for Best New Writer.Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goe
Tooth and Claw
Book Details :
- Title: Tooth and Claw
- Author: Jo Walton
- Rating: 4.59 (911 Votes)
- Asin: 0765319519
- Format Type: Paperback
- Number of Pages: 336 Pages
- Publish Date: 2009-01-06
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A tale of contention over love and moneyamong dragonsJo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country housesin which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themsel
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