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"A literary page-turner.deeply pleasurable.Hand's lushly worded tale is consistently gripping. . A delightful waking dream." (Four stars) -- People
Elizabeth Hand is a writer whose vision, and whose writing into that extraordinary vision of hers, is exceptional --Bradford Morrow
I think she has written the best book of her generation. --Peter Straub
Don t turn the pages too fast if you can help it. --John Crowley
You don t so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe. --Kelly Link
Mortal Love is a wildly intelligent, dangerously sexy read. --Alisa Kwitney, author of Does She or Doesn't She?
A brilliant novel like Elizabeth Hand s recent Mortal Love deserves all the readers it can get. --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
At once a painting in prose, an investigation into artistic obsession and a re-evaluation . Ambitious and richly imagined. --Washington Post Book World
The novel succeeds as both a thriller and a meditation on the mysterious nature of inspiration. --Village Voice
A wonderfully Gothic atmosphere, with lush visual imagery and rich poetic language. --Library Journal
Elizabeth Hand is a writer whose vision, and whose writing into that extraordinary vision of hers, is exceptional --Bradford Morrow
I think she has written the best book of her generation. --Peter Straub
Don t turn the pages too fast if you can help it. --John Crowley
You don t so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe. --Kelly Link
Mortal Love is a wildly intelligent, dangerously sexy read. --Alisa Kwitney, author of Does She or Doesn't She?
A brilliant novel like Elizabeth Hand s recent Mortal Love deserves all the readers it can get. --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
At once a painting in prose, an investigation into artistic obsession and a re-evaluation . Ambitious and richly imagined. --Washington Post Book World
The novel succeeds as both a thriller and a meditation on the mysterious nature of inspiration. --Village Voice
A wonderfully Gothic atmosphere, with lush visual imagery and rich poetic language. --Library Journal
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- PublisherHarper Torch
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0061020532
- ISBN 13 9780061020537
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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