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Orb Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
336 pages ISBN: 0765319519 EAN: 9780765319517 Paperback
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Fiction | Fantasy
Here is a tale of a family dealing with the death of their
father, a son who goes to court 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. Here is what sounds for all the world like an enjoyable
Victorian novel, perhaps by Anthony Trollope…except that
everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here are politics and train stations, churchmen and family
retainers, courtship, and country houses…in 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 themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the
weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish,
growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.
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