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 Author Name: Holly Black
Title: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: New
Publisher: New York Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2005
ISBN Number: 0689868227 / 9780689868221
Cover Art: Yuen, Sammy Jr.
Item#: KB0001658
0689868227 When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag a long as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn bet ween her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.
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