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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-100671567659
ISBN-139780671567651
eBay Product ID (ePID)447218
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoon and the Sun
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicGeneral, Fantasy / Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height9.5 in
Item Weight26.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-003232
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsDiana GabaldonA wonderful book! Adventure, love, history, magic -- it's an engrossing story with magnificent characters, balanced perfectly on the edge between enchantment and belief.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even the sacred bond between brother and sister.By the fiftieth year of his reign, Louis XIV has made France the most powerful state in the western world. Yet the Sun King's appetite for glory knows no bounds. In a bold stroke, he sends his natural philosopher on an expedition to seek the source of immortality -- the rare, perhaps mythical, sea monsters. For the glory, of his God, his country, and his king, Father Yves de la Croix returns with his treasures: one heavy shroud packed in ice...and a covered basin that imprisons a shrieking creature.