With a Tangled Skein

Book Details

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Author(s):

Piers Anthony

First Pub:

1985

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

1999

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 16

1 - The Bonnie Boy

2 - College

3 - Shooting Deer

4 - Clotho

5 - Void

6 - Genealogy

7 - Changes

8 - Second Love

9 - Twin Moons

10 - Lachesis

11 - Tangle

12 - Blood

13 - Counterploy

14 - Bribe

15 - Maze Squared

16 - Answers

Internal ID:

732

Series:

<- Bearing an Hourglass - Wielding a Red Sword ->

Incarnations of Immortality*

#3 of 8

Incarnations of Immortality*

View this series in the book list

1) On a Pale Horse
2) Bearing an Hourglass
3) With a Tangled Skein
4) Wielding a Red Sword
5) Being a Green Mother
6) For Love of Evil
7) And Eternity
8) Under a Velvet Cloak

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

Niobe was the most beautiful young woman of her generation, with hair like buckwheat honey and eyes like the sky on a misty summer morning and a figure that was better imagined than described.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

She knew she had a long and satisfying role ahead of her as Lachesis.

Comments:

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Synopsis not on file
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Added: 02-Jun-2006

Last Updated: 27-Feb-2023

Publications

01-Oct-1988

Ballantine Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Oct-1988

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$4.95

Pages*:

380

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 1 Jan 1999 - 1 Jan 1999

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

620

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

ISBN:

0-345-31885-4

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-31885-5

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Michael Whelan - Cover Artist

THE WOMAN WHO WANTED REVENGE

When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's.

Hoping for revenge, Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan's plots where tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe's granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans - and he had tricked her son into Hell.

Niobe's only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit - a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising!

HERE IN THIS THIRD COMPLETE-IN-ITSELF NOVEL OF THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY WEAVES A FASCINATING PLOT AS TANGLED AS ANY SKIEN OF FATE. THIS IS ANTHONY AT HIS MOST INGENIOUS, WITH ANOTHER GRIPPING FANTASY OF THE STRUGGLE OF THE INCARNATIONS AGAINST THE MACHINATIONS OF SATAN.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Hardcover Edition: October 1985
First Mass Market Edition: October 1986
Fifth Printing: October 1988
Canada: $6.50

Author(s)

Piers Anthony
Birth: 06 Aug 1934 Oxford, England

Awards

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