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| The Complete Ivory (Daw Book Collectors) | 
 enlarge | Author: Doris Egan
Publisher: The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd
Category: Book
Buy Used: £11.96
New (4) from £32.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 710330
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 896
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.9
ISBN: 0756400414
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780756400415
ASIN: 0756400414
Publication Date: November 19, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. Ships from NY, USA. Your item should arrive in 15-30 days from date of shipment based on your location.
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 Worth the cash for part one only March 2, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I first read part one, The gate of Ivory, many years ago and fell in love with it. I am delighted to see the other two books finally published together with the first in this way, as they are untraceable any other way. I adore the world of Ivory, the characters are funny, flippant, clever and sometimes emotionally complex. It makes for a fascinating read. I think the humour with which Theo deals with the situations she's thrown into is what makes these books so hard to put down. I still feel that part one is the far superior novel, part 2 is good and part 3 I struggled with a little, it seemed to lack the pace of the other 2. That said, this is still one of my all time fave reads and will probably remain so. If you like anti-heroes with wit, you'll love this.
 colourful heroine survives the not-so-white world of Ivory October 10, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
While this collection of three books is arguably a little short on consistent social theory - our heroine, an offworlder, manages to flount convention pretty much most of the time - the background to the world of Ivory and its great Houses is sketched in with a casual deftness that skips your mind straight over such defects. The pleasure of this text comes from following the thoughts and deeds of Theodora, our feisty heroine, a stranded scholar who, despite an allergy to cats and a tendency to grumpiness in the morning, demonstrates a cheerful stoicism that ventures at times into a dangerous enthusiasm for adventure, as in Book Two where she becomes a little too enamoured of a group of brigands. There are some delightful comic moments to enliven the depictions of jailbreaks, cattlerustling and other activities which seem oddly suited to our scholar and collector of tales. Overall, a book without the punch of the spicy wine of Bujold or as enlivening as the rich mead of Le Guin, but a pretty passable vintage neverthless.
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