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This bittersweet romance--a lush, poetic retelling of the Grimm fairy tale "Godfather Death"--won the 1997 World Fantasy Award. In a magical world located on the back of a giant turtle, two women, Jaqe and Laurie, meet and fall in love. As they attempt to retain the glow of love in the face of societal and familial resistance, a red-haired biker by the name of Mother Night lends them a helping hand and heart in this . Unfortunately, Mother Night is actually Death; her help is double-edged...and it's certainly never free. What price will Jaqe and Laurie--and in years to come, their daughter Kate--be forced to pay?
| Size | | Length: | 355 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"While this begins as a depiction of modern lesbian life, it grows inexorably into a magical exploration of the deepest roots of life and death....Tender and disturbing, down-to-earth and wildly inventive, this complex novel shows Pollack to be one of our best fantasists."
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/1996)
"Death is at the center...of Rachel Pollack's 'Godmother Night', an extraordinary novel with everywhere, despite its powerful fantastic element, the feel of direct, LIVED experience....This is the kind of book for which the term 'magic realism'...was invented: a profoundly literary, profoundly human book managing simultaneously to reassure us of the validity of our lives and allow us to transcend them."
Bloomsbury Review - James Sallis
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