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Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1999, Hardcover) Signed
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Author
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Type
- Novel
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780151001811
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151001812
ISBN-13
9780151001811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
367944
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fencing Master
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-035536
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The master of the intellectual thriller is not an American or British writer, but Spaniard Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of the most creative and devilishly complex authors of the '90s."San Francisco Examiner, "The master of the intellectual thriller is not an American or British writer, but Spaniard Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of the most creative and devilishly complex authors of the '90s."-San Francisco Examiner, PRAISE FORTHE FENCING MASTER "A taut, elegant mystery . . . Prez-Reverte keeps us enthralled with his duel through the very last move."--ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, "The master of the intellectual thriller is not an American or British writer, but Spaniard Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of the most creative and devilishly complex authors of the '90s."--San Francisco Examiner, PRAISE FORTHE FENCING MASTER "A taut, elegant mystery . . . Pérez-Reverte keeps us enthralled with his duel through the very last move."-ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, "Instead of the clever puzzle that lies at the heart of many a lesser crime novel, he substitutes a subtle meditation on the deeper mysteries of fate and choice. Yet Pérez-Reverte is also a writer who knows how to keep the pages turning....A splendid performance."-The New York Times Book Review "A richly woven tale of intrigue...The reader will parry and lunge along with Don Jaime, feel a real part of the duel."-San Francisco Chronicle "A delightful period whodunit."-USA Today "The Fencing Master is Pérez-Reverte's best book to date....For a smart, literate novel with suspense and a great puzzle, this is hard to beat." -The Toronto Globe & Mail "Meticulously researched, his works are polished, erudite and cosmopolitan....A triumph."-The Dallas Morning News, PRAISE FORTHE FENCING MASTER A taut, elegant mystery . . . Pérez-Reverte keeps us enthralled with his duel through the very last move.-ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, "The master of the intellectual thriller is not an American or British writer, but Spaniard Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of the most creative and devilishly complex authors of the '90s."e"San Francisco Examiner
Dewey Decimal
863.6/4
Synopsis
Everyone in Madrid in the torrid fall of 1868 is discussing political plots and revolution except for Don Jaime. He is a fencing master and a man of honor, an anachronism. For years he has been working on a Treatise on the Art of Fencing, the heart of which is his perfection of the unstoppable thrust. He is approached one day by a beautiful and mysterious woman with a scar at the corner of her mouth that hints at dark violence. She asks the maestro to teach her the unstoppable thrust. Eventhough Do-a Adela de Otero's weapons of charm and elegance are formidable, Don Jaime declines. But he is entirely unprepared for the unhurried, sure, and inexplicable movements that follow. Soon he finds himself involved in a plot that includes seduction, politics, secret documents, and murder. Rich with the historical detail of a decaying world that agonizes-as does the art of fencing-over ideals of honor and chivalry, The Fencing Master is superb literature and an honest-to-goodness page-turner., The unstoppable thrust is the arcane fencing technique known only by Don Jaime--and the deadly maneuver that a beautiful young woman wants him to teach her.What begins as a rather bold request leads Don Jaime into the shadowy politics and violence of mid-nineteenth-century Madrid.
LC Classification Number
PQ6666.E765M3413
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