false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg 958158 7 Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --<b>Washington Post Book World.</b><br><br>With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past.  In <b>King Hereafter</b>, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland.  Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue.  He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth.<br><br>Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself.  She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does so with such realism and immediacy that she once more elevates historical fiction into high art. 5879194 1982 King Hereafter total:202|5:102|4:61|3:27|2:6|1:6| 202 853 318 51 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 1 false Wed Apr 23 08:31:20 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 21 21:55:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 4 0 false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 13:53:15 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 13:54:02 -0700 2009 once more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Mon Sep 07 10:46:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 10:50:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 3 0 false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 12:07:08 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 12:05:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 1 false Tue Sep 18 10:40:58 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 10:41:46 -0700 2007 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 3 0 true Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Mar 18 18:21:36 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:32:05 -0700 2009
I wonder, is Dunnett only capable of writing that sort of hypercompetant, ultra-energe...more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jul 05 18:37:43 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 18:39:29 -0700 2007 King Hereafter tells the tale of Thorfinn, Earl of Orkney who also became MacBeth, King of Alba (Scotland). Set in The Orkneys, Scotland, Norway, England and Rome of the 11th Century, King Hereafter brilliantly and lovingly recreates a vibrant chunk of history. Political intru...more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Aug 25 20:01:48 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 20:11:51 -0700 2007
Although I found it hard to get past the first chapter, the book ...more...]]> 2481379 0394523784 9780394523781 4 1 4.22 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2481379.King_Hereafter_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 07:02:42 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 09:47:16 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Wed Apr 08 05:45:32 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 08:02:00 -0700 2009 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 4 0 false Wed Jul 15 19:36:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 20:20:34 -0700 2009 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 2 0 false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 08:59:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 17:25:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Mar 16 12:03:26 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 12:04:35 -0700 2009 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 4 0 false Tue Jun 09 21:00:50 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 21:01:44 -0700 2009 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 0 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 05:27:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 05:27:43 -0700 2009 958158 0375704035 9780375704031 194 50 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179802663m/958158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958158.King_Hereafter 5 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 18:55:21 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 18 21:14:08 -0700 2008 Wow, so far...excellent historical fiction, and she has a whole slew of highly rated books. At times the detail is overwhelming. It is taking me a long time to plow through the dense writing. It's good, but not easy reading.

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