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The enterprise of death / Jesse Bullington.
- Title
- The enterprise of death / Jesse Bullington.
- Author
- Bullington, Jesse.
- Publication
- New York : Orbit, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3602.U42 E58 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 454 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction
- Historical fiction
- Black humor (Literature)
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-439).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780316087346 (pbk.)
- 0316087343 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010026564
- OCLC
- 548642211
- SCSB-10942896
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library