Incarceron - Softcover

Fisher, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340893605 ISBN 13: 9780340893609

Verlag: Hodder Children's Books, 2007

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Críticas:

One of today's best fantasy writers...readers can look forward to a deliciously dark and scary ride (The Independent)

Complex and richly imagined (New Welsh Review)

Imaginatively drawn and vividly described (School Librarian)

Catherine Fisher is an artist with words -- a brilliant writer and of fantasty and Incarceron maintains the high standard set by The Oracle and The Snow Walker trilogies...An engrossing, intricate story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by richly imaginative characters (Carousel)

Complete and believable. The story is wholly engaging and rushes along at a breathless and nail-biting pace with plenty of heroic moments and near misses...A gripping read that should enthral both young and old fantasy fans alike. (Buzz)

Beautifully imagined and realised...a barnstorming piece of serious fantasy that doesn't put a foot wrong...tense and fast-paced with a real atmosphere of menace (The Bookbag)

Fisher remains a superb writer (Write Away)

One of this year's most striking fantasy novels (The Times Online)

The plotting is intricate and the levels of legend and action are multi-layered...A tense and complicated fantasy adventure (Books For Keeps)

One novel stands out above all others...thrilling...a modern version of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, though given a better plot, people we care about and a prose style honed by decades of writing poetry (The Times)

Reseña del editor:

Incarceron - a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology - a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber - chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here.

In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison - a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device - a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ... "I loved the book. It's a crazy, cool, dark world ... it's a great story." -- Taylor Lautner, star of the Twilight movies

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Hodder Children's Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340893605
• ISBN 13: 9780340893609
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464