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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: absolute book
  name:
    name part: Knox, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  genre: Epic fiction.
  genre: Novels.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 628 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries... but not all of the attention it brings her is good. Questions arise about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and about the whereabouts of an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, also has questions, about a cold case. Then a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is an epic fantasy with an intimate tone; one in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, dead sisters are a living force, and great beauty is born of lies and treachery. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to a magical land of great beauty and peace but is founded on treachery, from New Zealand to Purgatory itself. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds"--
  table of contents: Part one: Insects. A book with a light in its long perspective ; The muleskinner -- Part two: Fire. Matron of honour ; The library at Princes Gate, 1995 ; Documentary evidence ; The Bibliothèque Méjanes -- Part three: Light. The island of apples ; Norfolk ; Night in a tree ; The firestarter ; Nil by mouth ; Brutal --Part four: Damp. Failing kindness ; The pale lady ; The summer road ; The island of women ; Kernow's story ; Go to your gate ; Questions from the audience ; Green pressure -- Part five: Carelessness. Two graves ; Basil Cornick's screen test ; Mimir's well ; A Torah above the Torah ; Taken lightly ; Quarry House -- Part six Uncaring. The moot ; Call and response ; Purgatory ; Neve's story ; Tintern ; The folly -- Epilogue: One hundred years, eighty with good behaviour.
  note: Elizabeth Knox.
  note: "First published in New Zealand in slightly different form by Victoria University Press, Wellington, in 2019"--Title page verso.
  subject:
    topic: Scrolls
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fire
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Libraries
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Multiverse
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Fantasy / Epic
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
  classification: PR9639.3.K57 A64 2021
  classification: 823/.914
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Absolute book
    name:
      name part: Knox, Elizabeth.
    origin info:
      publisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2019
    identifier: (DLC) 2019401105
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The absolute book
    name:
      name part: Knox, Elizabeth,
    origin info:
      publisher: [New York] : Viking, 2021.
    identifier: (DLC) 2020037570
  identifier: 9780593296738
  identifier: 0593296737
  identifier: 9780593296745
  identifier: 2020037569
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200818
    record change date: 20250318214656.1
    record identifier: in00004437810
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng