The leper's companions
First Edition Hardcover London : Jonathan Cape, 1999
Book Publishing Details
| Author: | Blackburn, Julia |
| Full title: | The leper's companions |
| Publisher: | London : Jonathan Cape, 1999 |
| Edition: | First Edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | No ISBN |
| Pages: | 216 |
| Book ID: | 229705 |
Comments & Item Features
First Edition. Language: English. ISBN: No ISBN.
Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.
Physical description; 216 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; SIGNED by the author. NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author has entered their world. A spellbinding novel by one of the most original writers currently at work, The Leper's Companions is an extraordinary evocation of the medieval world-a book about birth and death, about destiny, about the courage to let go without the certainty of surviving, to journey with no certainty of return. Subjects; Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Fiction. England - Social life and customs - (1066-1485) - Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General.
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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.
Physical description; 216 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; SIGNED by the author. NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author has entered their world. A spellbinding novel by one of the most original writers currently at work, The Leper's Companions is an extraordinary evocation of the medieval world-a book about birth and death, about destiny, about the courage to let go without the certainty of surviving, to journey with no certainty of return. Subjects; Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Fiction. England - Social life and customs - (1066-1485) - Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General.
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Keywords and Associated Terms
BZDB318 Unbranded Blackburn, Julia The leper's companions