Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The

Barker, Emily Croy

ISBN 10: 0670023663 / ISBN 13: 9780670023660

Published by Pamela Dorman Bks. / Viking, 2013

About this Item

563 pages; signed by the author on title page; dust jacket is in new clear protective mylar.

Seller Inventory # 207443

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The
• Publisher: Pamela Dorman Bks. / Viking
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670023663
• ISBN 13: 9780670023660
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Tal Goretsky
• Edition: 1st ptg.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by author
• Book Type: Hardcover (dj)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy,Signed

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Synopsis

An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive

Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman.  During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty.  Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true.

Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic.

For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).

About the Author

After twenty years as a journalist, Emily Croy Barker had great fun turning her writing skills to fiction to produce The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, her first novel. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently executive editor at The American Lawyer magazine. She lives in New Jersey.