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A tale of contention over love and money - among dragons. Jo Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses ... in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.… (mer)
InfoQuest: As Walton notes in the book's introduction, Trollope's Framley Parsonage provides some of the plot and characters for Tooth and Claw and is a very good Victorian novel (of the Barsetshire series, though it can easily stand alone).
Mint.ChocolateOcelot: Tooth and Claw is similar to Magicians & Mrs. Quent because of the Society of it. Things like marrying outside your social class, fancy parties, and where Mr. So-and-so was last night are all issues that characters in both books face.
Unless you don't care for books with human characters, I think if you enjoyed Tooth and Claw, you will enjoy The Magicians and Mrs. Quent… (mer)
Este es un libro curioso y diferente. Narra la historia de una familia que se enfrenta a la muerte de su padre, de un hijo que acude a la ley para reclamar su herencia, de otro que se atormenta con la confesin que le hizo su progenitor en su lecho de muerte; de una hija que se enamora, de otra que se implica en el movimiento abolicionista y de una ms que se sacrifica por su marido. Salvo que todos los protagonistas de esta historia son dragones de garras y colmillos ensangrentados... Tenemos aqu un mundo de polticos y estaciones de ferrocarril, de cortejos y mansiones en el campo... Un mundo en el que al morir un anciano, los miembros de su familia se renen... Una sociedad en la que los miembros ms poderosos se aprovechan de sus privilegios para hacerse ms fuertes.
What a pleasure to read this gem of a satire right after the satirefail of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen." The satire gods must have taken pity on me that this was the very next title I picked up. ( )
What a fascinating book! Just like it sounds -- a period courtroom drama among dragons. Well written and intricate in social nuances. Funny and horrifying -- I think it's much better than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but it has the same narrative effect -- amplifying social dangers to a height perhaps our changed society can better comprehend. It's such a different game when the alternative to propriety is to be eaten. ( )
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Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law— Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed—
Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills?
No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from In Memoriam AHH, 1850.
She'd like me to bring a dragon home, I suppose. It would serve her right if I did, some creature that would make the house intolerable to her.
Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, 1859
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This is for my aunt, Mary Lace, for coming so far down the road towards fantasy for me, and for coming down so many other roads with me, plenty of them real as well as metaphorical.
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Bon Agornin writhed on his deathbed, his wings beating as if he would fly to his new life in his old body.
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And there, as Sher came to join them, as Avan and Sebeth waited to be greeted, as Penn danced with Felin and Haner with Londaver, as the servants carried heavy trays of refreshments about the room, we shall leave them to take refuge in the comfort of gentle hypocrisy.
A tale of contention over love and money - among dragons. Jo Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses ... in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.
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