Vintner's Luck
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099273899
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. They meet again every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Elizabeth Knox is the author of five books, including the international success Black Oxen, but The Vintner's Luck was the first to be published outside her native New Zealand. It met great critical and popular success, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and turned into a film in 2009. She is married and lives with her family in Wellington.
