Research Catalog

Title

The absolute book / Elizabeth Knox.

Author

Knox, Elizabeth

Publication

• [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

628 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries... but not all of the attention it brings her is good. Questions arise about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and about the whereabouts of an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, also has questions, about a cold case. Then a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is an epic fantasy with an intimate tone; one in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, dead sisters are a living force, and great beauty is born of lies and treachery. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to a magical land of great beauty and peace but is founded on treachery, from New Zealand to Purgatory itself. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds"--

Subject

• Scrolls > Fiction
• Fire > Fiction
• Libraries > Fiction
• Multiverse > Fiction
• FICTION / Fantasy / Epic
• FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
• Scrolls
• Multiverse
• Libraries
• Fire

Genre/Form

• Fantasy fiction.
• Epic fiction.
• Novels.
• Fiction.

Note

• "First published in New Zealand in slightly different form by Victoria University Press, Wellington, in 2019"--Title page verso.

Contents

Part one: Insects. A book with a light in its long perspective ; The muleskinner -- Part two: Fire. Matron of honour ; The library at Princes Gate, 1995 ; Documentary evidence ; The Bibliothèque Méjanes -- Part three: Light. The island of apples ; Norfolk ; Night in a tree ; The firestarter ; Nil by mouth ; Brutal --Part four: Damp. Failing kindness ; The pale lady ; The summer road ; The island of women ; Kernow's story ; Go to your gate ; Questions from the audience ; Green pressure -- Part five: Carelessness. Two graves ; Basil Cornick's screen test ; Mimir's well ; A Torah above the Torah ; Taken lightly ; Quarry House -- Part six Uncaring. The moot ; Call and response ; Purgatory ; Neve's story ; Tintern ; The folly -- Epilogue: One hundred years, eighty with good behaviour.

Call Number

JFE 21-5304

ISBN

• 9780593296738
• 0593296737

LCCN

• 2020037569
• 40030365754

OCLC

1191457600

Author

Knox, Elizabeth, author.

Title

The absolute book / Elizabeth Knox.

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Editions:

Knox, Elizabeth. Absolute book Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2019401105

Other Form:

Online version: Knox, Elizabeth, The absolute book [New York] : Viking, 2021. 9780593296745 (DLC) 2020037570

Other Standard Identifier

40030365754

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5304