The Starless Sea: A Novel

Morgenstern, Erin

ISBN 10: 038554121X / ISBN 13: 9780385541213

Published by Doubleday, 2019

About this Item

First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Doubleday, 2019. From the author of 'The Night Circus' this endlessly creative novel is a pastiche of stories within stories, mysterious snippets, all interlocking and entwined. A first printing copy. 498 pages, 6-1/2' X 9-1/2". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Very sturdy hard cover illustrated boards. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Sewn binding is tight and square. Jacket just has a few minor bump marks. Edges of the text block are clean. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Seller Inventory # 23-11679

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Starless Sea: A Novel
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038554121X
• ISBN 13: 9780385541213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood.

Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction.

Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

About the Author

ERIN MORGENSTERN is the author of The Night Circus, a number-one national bestseller that has been sold around the world and translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in theater from Smith College and lives in Massachusetts.