Spinning Dust
Contributors: George A. Grant (Illustrator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781417913404
Subjects: Historical fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: WINTER . . . a bitter, relentless cold lying heavy upon the slopes and eddying thick in the hollows; leafless limbs reaching upward toward grey skies, like the scarred fingers of hands raised in prayer; white-locked farms huddling in half forsaken valleys; an occasional gaunt chateau standing back against the hills, dark, lonely, as some strange bird of ill omen might stand awaiting the hunter's kill; frozen highways winding away through thin forests to a dead sky-line, with only now and again the crunch of hoofs in the snow and the far jingle of droshky bells.