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The novel, set in Chicago, is the story of two childhood friends and young criminals, Danny Carter and Evan McGann. Years after their criminal partnership dissolved, like Carter has reformed himself and started a respectable new life, his former partner soon returns from prison to threaten Carter's peaceful new existence with demands of re-teaming.
The Blade Itself was released to positive reviews. Writing for The Guardian , author Jon Courtenay Grimwood said, "for once, the novel comes close to living up to its publisher's hype", [ 26 ] and Strange Horizons's Siobhan Carroll said that "fans of character-driven epics who are willing to take their heroes with a grain of moral ambiguity ...
The method of social analysis in the book is multidisciplinary in its study of relational dynamics. In contrast to earlier studies of society, this method concerns what kinds of social systems support the human capacity for consciousness, caring, and creativity, or conversely for insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness.
A new audiobook version was released in 2007 by Random House Audio to coincide with the release of Blade Runner: The Final Cut. This version, read by Scott Brick, is unabridged and runs approximately 9.5 hours over eight CDs. This version is a tie-in, using the Blade Runner: The Final Cut film poster and Blade Runner title. [6]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Gabaldon's second full-length Lord John novel, the 512-page Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, was published by Delacorte Press on August 28, 2007. [15] It debuted at #1 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List. [ 16 ]
The magazine's critical summary reads: "In this poignant, heartbreaking thriller, two unlikely men come together to seek revenge". [ 8 ] In a starred review , Kirkus Reviews praised Cosby's main characters, calling them "two compelling antiheroes you’ll root for from the start", and concluded by noting "violence and love go hand in hand in ...
Blade of the Immortal #1, published by Dark Horse Comics in June 1996. This is a listing of all chapters of Blade of the Immortal, organized into the original Japanese volumes published by Kodansha, and the English-language volumes published by Dark Horse Comics. The English-language volumes do not directly correspond to the Japanese ones.