false 60883941 1806899 1279884 0099273896 9780099273899 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182460410m/1279884.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182460410s/1279884.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1279884.The_Vintner_s_Luck 4.37 19 Jodeau marries, fathers children, and continues--bar a couple of years when he's off fighting, whoring and trying to keep his best friend alive on the Russian front--to meet with Xas. Their friendship deepens. Jodeau's wine improves, and the joys and troubles of village life wash around him. But this strange relationship between man and angel is inherently unstable, and following the death of Jodeau's beloved younger daughter, it veers off in a direction neither had anticipated. And then Xas tells Jodeau something that drives the vintner almost beyond madness. --Lisa Gee

]]> 91085 3.80 1493 378 1998 0 2009-08-28T04:38:27-07:00 1227675 288 2009-08-28T04:38:27-07:00 The year is 1823 0 2009-08-26T17:51:11-07:00 1221106 59 2009-08-26T17:51:11-07:00 5 0 false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 21:24:56 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 02:46:38 -0700 2009 I already noted in my review for her YA novel Dreamhunter, her writing style is beautiful and poetic, but not pretentious, and lends an otherworldly quality to the story that you are reading. Even in the most inelegant and even distur...more...]]>