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005			20191101131507.0
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020			_a9781776562305 _qpaperback
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050		4	_aPR9699.K72 _b2019
082	0	4	_aNZ823.2 _223
100			_aKnox, Elizabeth. _95335
245	1	4	_aThe absolute book / _cElizabeth Knox.
260			_aWellington, New Zealand : _bVictoria University Press, _c 2019.
300			_a656 pages ; _c21 cm
500			_aNovel.
520			_aaryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her - her sister's death by violence, and her own ill-concieved revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries - insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. The book is a success, but not all of the attention it brings her is good. There are questions about a fire in the library at Princes Gate, her grandparents' house, and about an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, has questions about a cold case. There are threatening phone calls. And a shadowy young man named Shift appears, bringing his shadows with him. Taryn, Jacob, Shift - three people are driven towards a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is an epic fantasy, intimate in tone. A book where hidden treasures are recovered; where wicked things people think they've shaken from their trails find their scent again. A book about beautiful societies founded on theft and treachery, and one in which dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and returns, set in London, Norfolk, and the Wye Valley; in Auckland, New Zealand; in the Island of Apples and Summer Road of the Sidhe; at Hell's Gate; in the Tacit with its tombs; and in the hospitals and train stations of Purgatory. Cover: Catherine Nelson, Lost (2014). `The master is present. To read Knox on such a huge canvas - to be immersed in her worlds, wrapped in her intelligence and craft so completely - is an experience not be missed. Lessing, Le Guin, Knox - books where the best hearts meet the best minds meet the best imaginations are few and far between. The Absolute Book is a triumph of fantasy grounded in the reality and challenges of the moment we live in.' -Pip Adam
650		0	_aLibraries _vFiction. _94097
655		0	_aNew Zealand fiction _y21st century. _5Nz _918597
655		0	_aFantasy fiction _2lcgft _944001
655		0	_aApocalyptic fiction. _2lcgft _937114
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