The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here--and to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword.

Ellen Kushner's Riverside series begins with the cult classic Swordspoint, followed by the Locus Award winner and Nebula Award nominee The Privilege of the Sword; The Fall of the Kings, written with Delia Sherman; and, most recently, the collaborative prequel Tremontaine. Her mythic fantasy novel Thomas the Rhymer won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. She also co-edited Welcome to Bordertown with Holly Black.

A popular performer and public speaker, Kushner created and hosted the long-running public radio show Sound & Spirit, which Bill Moyers called the best thing on public radio. She has taught creative writing at the Clarion and Odyssey writing workshops and is an instructor at Hollins University's children's literature MFA program. She lives in New York City with Delia Sherman and no cats whatsoever, in an apartment full of theater and airplane ticket stubs.

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ISBN 13	9780553586961
ISBN 10	0553586963
Title	The Privilege of the Sword
Author	Ellen Kushner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-06-26
Number of pages	462
Prizes	Winner of Locus Awards (Fantasy Novel) 2007
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