His Dark Materials: Northern Lights The Golden Compass , The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

$3,600 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here. They are not flung together, they are shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. If you are going to preface your books with passages from Milton, Rilke and John Ashbery, then you had better write well. Pullman does. His prose has texture and flexibility, like excellent fabric. And he gives us so much. Suspense of course, but such degrees of

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