Advent

Treadwell, James

ISBN 10: 1451661649 / ISBN 13: 9781451661644

Published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advent
• Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451661649
• ISBN 13: 9781451661644
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A drowning, a magician s curse, and a centuries-old secret. 1537. A man hurries through city streets in a gathering snowstorm, clutching a box in one hand. He is Johann Faust, the greatest magician of his age. The box he carries contains a mirror safeguarding a portion of his soul and a small ring containing all the magic in the world. Together, they comprise something unimaginably dangerous. London, the present day. Fifteen-year-old Gavin Stokes is boarding a train to the countryside to live with his aunt. His school and his parents can t cope with him and the things he sees, things they tell him don t really exist. At Pendurra, Gavin finds people who are like him, who see things too. They all make the same strange claim: magic exists, it s leaking back into our world, and it s bringing something terrible with it. First in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy, Advent describes how magic was lost to humanity, and how a fifteen-yea

About the Author

James Treadwell was lecturer and junior research fellow at the University of Oxford, and assistant professor of English at McGill University. He is the author of Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783–1834 and Interpreting Wagner. He lives in London, England.