Picture 1 of 1
Picture 1 of 1
The Wolf Gift by Rice, Anne
by Rice, Anne | HC | Good
US $5.81
ApproximatelyEUR 5.22
Condition:
“Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ”... Read moreAbout condition
Good
A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
Last one31 sold
Postage:
Free Economy Shipping.
Located in: Aurora, Illinois, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Fri, 27 Sep and Mon, 30 Sep to 43230
Returns:
30 days return. Seller pays for return postage.
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:144409548498
Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0307595110
- Book Title
- Wolf Gift : a Novel
- Book Series
- The Wolf Gift Chronicles Ser.
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Fantasy / Paranormal, Horror, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
- Item Weight
- 25 oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307595110
ISBN-13
9780307595119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111001153
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wolf Gift : a Novel
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Fantasy / Paranormal, Horror, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The Wolf Gift Chronicles Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-043740
Reviews
" The Wolf Gift is vintage Anne Rice--a lushly written, gothic...metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves." --Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal "Anne Rice has done it again. In her latest novel, The Wolf Gift , the woman who single-handedly, reinvented the vampire genre puts her formidable talent to work rewriting ''were-wolf'' lore and in the end succeeds magnificently." --Nola Cancel, Examiner "[Rice] returns to the lushly evocative scenery and gothic atmosphere of her vampire novels with great success. . . her reimagining of a well-worn mythology is fresh and intriguing. Fans of Rice''s The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series should delight in this new saga delivered in the author''s distinctive style. Part creation story, part love story, all excellent!" --Bette Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred) "I want to howl at the moon over this...I devoured these pages...[A] terrific new novel. . . . The plot [is] magnetic, the characters fascinating, and Rice''s style as solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early vampire chronicle fiction." --Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe "Rice weaves her trademark meditations on the role of supernatural creatures in society into an often thrilling, page-turning yarn" --Kristine Huntley, Booklist "[A]n energetic gambol, feisty and terrific fun. . . . [A] fast-paced, heady romp that ranks with her best. . . . Wolf Gift is irresistible." --Joy Tipping, The Dallas Morning News "[I]n Rice''s hands, The Wolf Gift evolves from a fantastical romp into an engrossing thriller. . . ." --Liz Colville, San Francisco Chronicle "Anne Rice combines a vast literary gift with a shameless love of sex, beauty and pop culture. Her artistic vision is part Bela Lugosi, part Andy Warhol, part Christina the Astonishing, the medieval holy woman who could famously "smell sin."... The Wolf Gift will leave open-minded readers howling for more." --Aidan Johnson, The Globe and Mail "[E]xciting tale of a contemporary werewolf. . . . Rice''s classic concerns regarding good and evil and shifting views of reality play out wonderfully in what will surely please fans and newcomers alike." -- Publishers Weekly "[O]ne part ''Beauty and the Beast'' love story, one part meditation on morality and immortality, and one part superman tale. . . . Told in the memorable style that won Rice''s vampire series so many readers, The Wolf Gift is an intriguing new take on the classic werewolf legend...Rice deepens and gives nuance to classic werewolf lore." --Diana Pinckley, New Orleans Times-Picayune "Rice has never shied away from tackling Big Issues... The Wolf Gift marks a return to form while still giving a nod to spiritual matters...[A] delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure, shape-shifting and suspense." -Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post "Anne Rice is back" --Tirdad Derakhshani, The Philadelphia Inquirer "[W]ritten with compelling modernity... The Wolf Gift is a strong--and welcome--return to the monster mythology that made Anne Rice famous." --Rob LeFebvre, Shelf Awareness "With both thrilling acts of horror and a final act that is deeply based in the mythology of the Wolf Gift and its history --- and bordering on lycanthropic existentialism --- this novel opens readers up to a world they only thought they knew...The characters come alive, and the strange history of the Nideck family will jump off the page and enter the readers'' nightmares as Rice has found a new gothic saga to sink her teeth into." --Ray Palen, Bookreporter.com, " The Wolf Gift is vintage Anne Rice-a lushly written, gothic, violent, gory, metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves." -Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal "[Rice] returns to the lushly evocative scenery and gothic atmosphere of her vampire novels with great success. . . her reimagining of a well-worn mythology is fresh and intriguing. Fans of Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series should delight in this new saga delivered in the author's distinctive style. Part creation story, part love story, all excellent!" -Bette Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred) "Rice weaves her trademark meditations on the role of supernatural creatures in society into an often thrilling, page-turning yarn" -Kristine Huntley, Booklist "Anne Rice has done it again. In her latest novel, The Wolf Gift , the woman who single-handedly, reinvented the vampire genre puts her formidable talent to work rewriting 'were-wolf' lore and in the end succeeds magnificently." -Nola Cancel, Examiner , " The Wolf Gift is vintage Anne Rice-a lushly written, gothic…metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves." -Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal "Anne Rice has done it again. In her latest novel, The Wolf Gift , the woman who single-handedly, reinvented the vampire genre puts her formidable talent to work rewriting 'were-wolf' lore and in the end succeeds magnificently." -Nola Cancel, Examiner "[Rice] returns to the lushly evocative scenery and gothic atmosphere of her vampire novels with great success. . . her reimagining of a well-worn mythology is fresh and intriguing. Fans of Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series should delight in this new saga delivered in the author's distinctive style. Part creation story, part love story, all excellent!" -Bette Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred) "I want to howl at the moon over this…I devoured these pages…[A] terrific new novel. . . . The plot [is] magnetic, the characters fascinating, and Rice's style as solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early vampire chronicle fiction." -Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe "Rice weaves her trademark meditations on the role of supernatural creatures in society into an often thrilling, page-turning yarn" -Kristine Huntley, Booklist "[A]n energetic gambol, feisty and terrific fun. . . . [A] fast-paced, heady romp that ranks with her best. . . . Wolf Gift is irresistible." -Joy Tipping, The Dallas Morning News "[I]n Rice's hands, The Wolf Gift evolves from a fantastical romp into an engrossing thriller. . . ." -Liz Colville, San Francisco Chronicle "Anne Rice combines a vast literary gift with a shameless love of sex, beauty and pop culture. Her artistic vision is part Bela Lugosi, part Andy Warhol, part Christina the Astonishing, the medieval holy woman who could famously "smell sin."… The Wolf Gift will leave open-minded readers howling for more." -Aidan Johnson, The Globe and Mail "[E]xciting tale of a contemporary werewolf. . . . Rice's classic concerns regarding good and evil and shifting views of reality play out wonderfully in what will surely please fans and newcomers alike." - Publishers Weekly "[O]ne part 'Beauty and the Beast' love story, one part meditation on morality and immortality, and one part superman tale. . . . Told in the memorable style that won Rice's vampire series so many readers, The Wolf Gift is an intriguing new take on the classic werewolf legend…Rice deepens and gives nuance to classic werewolf lore." -Diana Pinckley, New Orleans Times-Picayune "Rice has never shied away from tackling Big Issues… The Wolf Gift marks a return to form while still giving a nod tospiritual matters…[A] delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure, shape-shifting and suspense." -Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post "Anne Rice is back" -Tirdad Derakhshani, The Philadelphia Inquirer "[W]ritten with compelling modernity… The Wolf Gift is a strong-and welcome-return to the monster mythology that made Anne Rice famous." -Rob LeFebvre, Shelf Awareness "With both thrilling acts of horror and a final act that is deeply based in the mythology of the Wolf Gift and its history --- and bordering on lycanthropic existentialism --- this novel opens readers up to a world they only thought they knew…The characters come alive, and the strange history of the Nideck family will jump off the page and enter the readers' nightmares as Rice has found a new gothic saga to sink her teeth into." -Ray Palen, Bookreporter.com
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles ("unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable"-- The Washington Post ), Lives of the Mayfair Witches ("Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature"-- San Francisco Chronicle ), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim ("remarkable"--Associated Press). A whole new world--modern, sleek, high-tech--and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night--shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked--bitten--by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift. As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as "the Man Wolf" by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching--guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man., NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Vintage Anne Rice--a lushly written, gothic ... metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves." -- The Wall Street Journal A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles ("unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable"-- The Washington Post ), Lives of the Mayfair Witches ("Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature"-- San Francisco Chronicle ), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim ("remarkable"--Associated Press). A whole new world--modern, sleek, high-tech--and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night--shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked--bitten--by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift. As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as "the Man Wolf" by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching--guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man., NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Vintage Anne Rice--a lushly written, gothic ... metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves." -- The Wall Street Journal A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles ("unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable"-- The Washington Post ), Lives of the Mayfair Witches ("Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature"-- San Francisco Chronicle ), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim ("remarkable"--Associated Press). A whole new world--modern, sleek, high-tech--and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night--shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked--bitten--by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift. As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as "the Man Wolf" by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching--guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.I265W65 2012
Item description from the seller
Business seller information
Thrift Books Global, LLC
TB Thrift Books
18300 Cascade Ave S
Ste 150
98188 Seattle, WA
United States
I certify that all my selling activities will comply with all EU laws and regulations.
Registered as a business seller
Seller Feedback (5,353,869)
This item (14)
All items (5,353,869)
n***e (243)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Fast shipping!! My book came in excellent condition!! Would buy from this seller again!!
e***e (303)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
I received the book I ordered fairly quickly and is in good condition.
b***e (37)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Good used book ty
t***o (621)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Perfect!
a***r (1038)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Good seller with solid packing and fast postage.
i***l (501)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Arrived quickly and just as described. Thank you!
More to explore:
- Anne Rice Audio Books,
- Anne Rice Fiction Fiction & Books,
- Anne Rice Antiquarian & Collectable Books,
- Anne Rice Fiction Hardcover Books,
- Anne Rice Fiction Horror Fiction & Books,
- Anne Rice Fantasy Fiction Hardcover Books,
- Anne Rice Fiction Vampires Fiction & Non-Fiction Books,
- Anne Rice Horror Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books,
- Anne Rice Fantasy Fiction Hardcover Books in English,
- Anne Rice Fiction Horror Fiction Books & 1950-1999 Publication Year