Details

ISBN-10: 0553573403
ISBN-13: 9780553573404
Publisher: Bantam
Publish Date: 08/04/1997
Dimensions: 6.80" L, 4.10" W, 1.50" H

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Mass Market Paperbound

Price: $9.99

Overview

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing: his most trusted advisor dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself. Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, “A Game of Thrones” tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards who come together in a time of grim omens. Here, an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal, a tribe of fierce wildings carry men off into madness, a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne, a child is lost in the twilight between life and death, and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

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"The major fantasy of the decade . . . compulsively readable."–Denver Post

"We have been invited to a grand feast and pageant: George R.R. Martin has unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world."–Chicago Sun-Times

"A Best Book of 1996: Martin makes a triumphant return to high fantasy . . . [with] superbly developed characters, accomplished prose, and sheer bloodymindedness."–Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A splendid saga . . . . Inventive and intricately plotted."–BookPage

"Magic . . . George R.R.Martin's first fantasy epic [is set] well above the norms of the genre."–Locus

"Such a splendid tale and such a fantasticorical! I read my eyes out and couldn't stop 'til I finished and it was dawn."–Anne McCaffrey

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Details

ISBN-10: 0553573403
ISBN-13: 9780553573404
Publisher: Bantam
Publish Date: 08/04/1997
Dimensions: 6.80" L, 4.10" W, 1.50" H
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