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Lyra and Will, the two ordinary children whose extraordinary adventures began in The Golden Compass and continued in The Subtle Knife,are in unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a gray-lit world where living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a maagnificent amber spyglass. An assassin hunts her down. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, a battle of strange allies--and shocking sacrifices. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living--and the dead--finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story. The Amber Spyglass reveals that story, bringing Philip Pullman's His Dar Materials to an astonishing conclusion. This Yearling paperback edition contains 13 pages of bonus material: the found tes and letters of Mary Malone. It also features chapter-opening artwork by Philip Pullman.Product Identifiers
PublisherYearling Books
ISBN-100440418569
ISBN-139780440418566
eBay Product ID (ePID)183283780
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AuthorPhilip Pullman
FormatUnsewn / Adhesive Bound, Trade Paperback (Us), Paperback / Softback
LanguageEnglish
TopicYoung Adult Fiction
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Series Part/Volume Number03
Series TitleHis Dark Materials (Paperback)
Author BiographyPhilip Pullman has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted Carnegie of Carnegies for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Award for The Amber Spyglass ; a Booker Prize long-list nomination ( The Amber Spyglass ); Parents' Choice Gold Awards ( The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Philip Pullman is the author of many books for young readers, including two volumes related to the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. He lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit www.philip-pullman.com and www.hisdarkmaterials.com. From the Hardcover edition.
Date of Publication27/05/2003
Country of PublicationUnited States