Knowledge of Angels (UK HB - INSCRIBED to Geoffrey Howe)

Paton Walsh, Jill

ISBN 10: 0948845058 / ISBN 13: 9780948845055

Published by Colt Books, 1994

About this Item

UK hardback second impression. INSCRIBED to Lord Howe in Cambridge on and dated 10.11.94. Has the Howe's bookplate to front pastedown. Near fine in VG jacket, unclipped with a bit of spine fade, and creasing to top edge of front panel.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1731592368713

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge of Angels (UK HB - INSCRIBED to Geoffrey Howe)
• Publisher: Colt Books
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948845058
• ISBN 13: 9780948845055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Knowledge of Angels [Hardcover] Paton Walsh, Jill

From the Publisher

"Praised by Ursula K. Le Guin as a "disturbing and beautiful novel of ideas," Knowledge Of Angels is an absorbing read that explores timeless conflicts between tolerance and moral certainty, between loving kindness and murderous cruelty. Capturing the mood of William Golding's haunting medieval love story, The Spire, Knowledge Of Angels is a suspenseful fable set on a mythical island in the time of the Inquisition, a time of unquestionable and unquestioned faith and unmerciful justice. The fable spins a tale of two outcasts: a wild, flesh-eating wolf child and a foreign prince, captured separately and taken to the cardinal prince of the island. The wolf girl is remanded to a nunnery, where her caretakers are ordered to teach her to speak but not to speak of God, so that the cardinal can ask her if God exists. On her answer depends the life of the heretic prince, condemned because he does not believe in God. The federal creature and the elegant paladin are used as pawns by the town's religious council to answer the question of whether or not believing in God is an inherent part of being human.

"[Its] lapidary prose leads the enchanted and unsuspecting reader from escapism to self- scrutiny."--The New Yorker.

"An illuminated and illuminating book [that] advances to a brilliant and relentless conclusion."--New York Newsday.

"A novel set in a time and place other than the here and now, but a novel of importance to the here and now-one that prompts us to grapple with the great questions of trust, faith, understanding. A soul-compelling book that will touch many readers deeply."--Robert Coles, author of The Spiritual Life Of Children.