Thursday, 12 January 2017

The Blood Star By Nicholas Guild

The Blood Star View By Nicholas Guild

Title:The Blood Star
Author:Nicholas Guild
Format:Hardcover
Page:664 pages
ISBN:0689118988

Shot through with dark, exotic lyricism, Guild s majestic historical epic cuts a wide swath through ancient Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Sicily, Greece Its narrator hero, Tiglath Ashur, seen before in The Assyrian , is banished from Nineveh by his hated half brother, the Assyrian king, partly due to a misunderstanding that is not cleared up until long after the brothers are Shot through with dark, exotic lyricism, Guild s majestic historical epic cuts a wide swath through ancient Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Sicily, Greece Its narrator hero, Tiglath Ashur, seen before in The Assyrian , is banished from Nineveh by his hated half brother, the Assyrian king, partly due to a misunderstanding that is not cleared up until long after the brothers are reconciled Fleeing the king s assassins, Tiglath encounters formulaic elements of the adventure novel sudden perils, gory battles, omens, spicy lovemaking


about Author

Nicholas Guild was born in Belmont, California in 1944 He graduated from Occidental College with a B.A in English in 1966 and from the University of California at Berkeley with an M.A in Comparative Literature 1968 and a Ph.D in English 1972 Since then he has divided his time between teaching and writing He currently lives in Frederick, MD.



thumbnailTitle: The Blood Star
Posted by:Nicholas Guild
Published :2016-03-06T03:40+01:00
Shot through with dark, exotic lyricism, Guild s majestic historical epic cuts a wide swath through ancient Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Sicily, Greece
The Blood Star
664 pagesNicholas Guild

No comments:

Post a Comment