One King, One Soldier by Alexander C. Irvine ARC

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Special Attributes
1st Edition
ISBN
9780345466969
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345466969
ISBN-13
9780345466969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30219844

Product Key Features

Book Title
One King, One Soldier
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Historical, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Author
Alex Irvine
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-049317
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will love this!" KEVIN BAKER, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley "Irvine's prose is rich and evocative, his plot tightly structured and beautifully paced." The Washington Post for A Scattering of Jades, "A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will love this!" KEVIN BAKER, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley " Irvine's prose is rich and evocative, his plot tightly structured and beautifully paced." The Washington Post for A Scattering of Jades, "A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will love this!" KEVIN BAKER, author ofDreamlandandParadise Alley "Irvine's prose is rich and evocative, his plot tightly structured and beautifully paced." The Washington PostforA Scattering of Jades
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
The story says that one day a Fisher King will rise to heal the land. In the 1950s, they're still waiting. . . . "A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will love this!"--Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley At the turn of the twentieth century, a baseball player named George Gibson embarks upon a mystical journey to the Congo. His mission: to shepherd a powerful relic to its home in Abyssinia. But poet-turned-grail seeker Arthur Rimbaud is after what Gibson possesses--as others before him have been for millennia. A half century later, after receiving an honorable discharge from the Korean War, twenty-year-old Lance Porter vows to put his civilian life back together--which means heading to commie-infested Berkeley to see his high school sweetheart, Ellie. But after Lance gets cold feet, he encounters instead a drunk, gay poet named Jack Spicer, who spews crazy stories about Lance being the Fisher King. It appears that the bearing of the grail has been bequeathed to young Lance, much to his shock and disbelief. Can a legacy born in the deserts of Ethiopia truly be reemerging in the bohemian bars of New York City and San Francisco? And is a vet with a lost soul really worthy of its care? Alexander C. Irvine has breathed a refreshing burst of air into the Arthurian legend. In One King, One Soldier, ancient characters and Irvine's pitch-perfect historical accuracy merge with a gritty, dark portrait of America in the cold-war '50s. Here, three stories come brilliantly together in an edgy mix of baseball, imperialism, poetry, and grail mythology., The story says that one day a Fisher King will rise to heal the land. In the 1950s, they're still waiting. . . . "A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. Fans of The Da Vinci Code will love this "--Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley At the turn of the twentieth century, a baseball player named George Gibson embarks upon a mystical journey to the Congo. His mission: to shepherd a powerful relic to its home in Abyssinia. But poet-turned-grail seeker Arthur Rimbaud is after what Gibson possesses--as others before him have been for millennia. A half century later, after receiving an honorable discharge from the Korean War, twenty-year-old Lance Porter vows to put his civilian life back together--which means heading to commie-infested Berkeley to see his high school sweetheart, Ellie. But after Lance gets cold feet, he encounters instead a drunk, gay poet named Jack Spicer, who spews crazy stories about Lance being the Fisher King. It appears that the bearing of the grail has been bequeathed to young Lance, much to his shock and disbelief. Can a legacy born in the deserts of Ethiopia truly be reemerging in the bohemian bars of New York City and San Francisco? And is a vet with a lost soul really worthy of its care? Alexander C. Irvine has breathed a refreshing burst of air into the Arthurian legend. In One King, One Soldier, ancient characters and Irvine's pitch-perfect historical accuracy merge with a gritty, dark portrait of America in the cold-war '50s. Here, three stories come brilliantly together in an edgy mix of baseball, imperialism, poetry, and grail mythology.
LC Classification Number
PS3609.R85O54 2004

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