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L'Esprit de L'Escalier
2021
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland comes Catherynne M. Valente's dark fantasy tale "L’Esprit de L’Escalier", a Tor.com Original. In this provocative and rich retelling of the Greek myth, Orpheus, the musician son of Apollo and Calliope, successfully rescues his wife Eurydice from Hades after her untimely death. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
600
5 STARS
37%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
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Author

Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
Author · 60 books

Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.

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