Yearling BooksProduct Description*****?Just announced!?THE BOOK OF DUST???the long-awaited new work from Philip Pullman?? set in the world of His Dark Materials?? will be published as a work in three parts?? with the first volume to arrive in October 2017! *****
The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass?? the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "ime Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time??"continues the epic adventure?? catapulting readers between worlds?? and toward a devastating discovery.
Lost in a new world?? Lyra finds Will?a boy on the run?? a murderer?a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the sk"ith troops of angels.
Each is searching?Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter?? Will for his missing father?but what they find instead is a deadly secret?? a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives?? their loves?? their destinies are bound together...until they are split apart.
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??Just as quick-moving and unputdownable as The Golden Compass. . . . The mysteries deepen and the wonders grow even more extravagant.?? ?The Washington Post
??Pullman??s imagination soars . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you won??t want to miss.???The Boston Globe
??The story gallops with ferocious momentum . . . Devilishly inventive.?? ?The New York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com ReviewWith The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "we-inspiring??""grand??"and "glittering??"and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or?? more likely?? several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The d??mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch?? or had his heroine and her too?? too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe?? not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were defin"n order. The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for?? and more. For a start?? there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra?? Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers?? though?? his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself?? no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens?? Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father?? a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford?? which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors?? he comes upon a cat with more