The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)

by Philip Pullman

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Series (with order)

His Dark Materials (3)

Canonical Title

The Amber Spyglass

Original publication date

2000

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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

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Awards and honors

Whitbread (Book of the Year, 2001)

Whitbread (Children's Book of the Year, 2001)

British Book Award (Children's Book of the Year, 2001)

World Fantasy Award Nominee (Novel, 2001)

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In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with melt-water splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0439994144, Paperback)

His Dark Materials • Book III

“IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN, SO FIRMLY AND RELENTLESSLY DOES PULLMAN DRAW YOU INTO HIS TALE . . . [A] gripping saga pitting the magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the forces of both Heaven and Hell.”
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“BREATHTAKING ADVENTURE . . . A TERRIFIC STORY, ELOQUENTLY TOLD.”
–The Boston Sunday Globe

“HEARTSTOPPING PACE . . . CRACKLING ACTION . . . Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the 20th century.”
–Cincinnati Enquirer

“TRIUMPHANT . . . MASTERFUL . . . A THOUGHTFUL, METICULOUSLY CRAFTED ADVENTURE.”
–San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:03:32 -0400)

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