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The Daylight Gate - Softcover

Winterson, Jeanette

 
9780802122834: The Daylight Gate
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802122833 ISBN 13: 9780802122834
Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

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?Mixing historical detail and dark horror, [Winterson] brilliantly brews a spellbinding take on the 1612 English witch trials.”?People

An instant bestseller in the UK, The Daylight Gate is Jeanette Winterson’s singular vision of a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for power in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined. On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter. Shrouded in mystery and gifted with eternally youthful beauty, Alice is established in Lancashire society and insulated by her fortune. As those accused of witchcraft retreat into darkness, Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that will either destroy her or set her free.

?Winterson’s haunting imagery and narrative immediacy captivate. An engrossing story that’s sure to leave you shivering.”?Elle

?This book is addictive, a page-turner?Winterson lays on the horror and the supernatural with gleeful abandon.”?LA Review of Books

?A daring historical novel?a portal in prose?.Any reader who crosses over into this novel will remember vividly where he or she has traveled.”?NPR.com

?Delightfully gruesome.”?New York Times

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Born in Manchester, England, Jeanette Winterson is the author of seventeen books, including the national bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.

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Verlag
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802122833
ISBN 13 
9780802122834
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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