Australia
2005
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Description : Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning best-seller in the United States, this is the first of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy. Kivrin knows everything about the Middle Ages - she's read all the books. She knows it's dangerous: cutthroats in the woods, witch hunts, cholera, and millions dying in the plague. For a young historian, it's fascinating. When Kivrin's tutors in Oxford's history lab finally agree to send her on an on-site study trip, she jumps at the chance to observe medieval life first-hand. But a crisis that strangely links the past and future leaves her stranded in the most deadly and terrifying era in human history, face to face with the heart-rending reality behind the statistics. And while she fights for her own life, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope in this dark time. Five years in the writing, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the timeless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. About the Author : In the tradition of Jean M. Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear) and Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon), Connie Willis is a prodigiously gifted storyteller who manages to blend fantasy, science fiction, history and romance into her unique, award-winning novels and short stories. She has won six Nebula and six Hugo Awards (more than any other writer in the genre) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Connie was born on December 31, 1945 in Denver, Colorado. She is married to physicist Courtney Willis, and has one daughter, Cordelia. They live in Greeley, Colorado. (Pages:708) An evocation of life at the time of the Middle Ages through the eyes of a contemporary Oxford student. A young woman travels back through time to complete her doctoral thesis - but due to an accident, she lands in the middle of the Black Plague of 1348. [When referring to this item please quote stockid 7741]
ISBN: 1741141958
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