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An edition of The Subtle Knife (1997)

The subtle knife

1st Ballantine ed.

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  • 287 Want to read
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

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Pages
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Lyra Belacqua Will Parry

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Arctic regions Regiones árticas Ying guo

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Edition Notes

Sequel to: The golden compass.

Reprint. Originally published New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1997.

"A Del Rey book."

Published in
New York
Series
His dark materials -- bk. 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.P968 Su 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
288 p. ;
Number of pages
288

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18399716M
ISBN 10
0345413369
ISBN 13
9780345413369
LCCN
97097122
OCLC/WorldCat
38954170
LibraryThing
4432994
Goodreads
77473

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Work ID
OL28993W

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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?

The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.

Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky.

But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.

On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power.

And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny.

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Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..." But his mother hung back.
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