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Or What You Will - by Jo Walton (Paperback)

Or What You Will - by  Jo Walton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Or What You Will</i> is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth </b><b>from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. </b> <p/>He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. <p/>But "he" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. <p/>But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does. And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he. <p/>Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Walton shines, as she always does, in the small and hurtful and glorious business of interpersonal relationships.<i>..</i>this book about philosophy, history, gender and freedom also manages to be a spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue. --Cory Doctorow, <i>Boing Boing </i>on <i>The Just City</i> <p/>A remarkable novel of ideas...Superb. In the end, the novel does more than justice to the idea of the Just City. --<i>Booklist</i>, starred review, on <i>The Just City</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel <i>Among Others</i>. Before that, her novel <i>Tooth and Claw </i>won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. A native of Wales, Walton lives in Montreal.

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