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Loading... The Angel's Cut (2009)by Elizabeth Knox
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) phoebesmum | Jan 4, 2012 |   ) theinsidestory | Jun 2, 2010 |  ) HelenBaker | Dec 2, 2009 | What can an angel do when he loses his wings? Xas tries to stay in the air by becoming a stunt flyer in the early days of both Hollywood’s film industry and of aviation. He becomes involved with an equally maimed human, Flora McLeod, and finally becomes voluntarily earthbound in order to rear her child. She had been an early Hollywood starlet, until a stupid prank burned away her beauty and her career, leaving her in constant pain. Set in the 1920’s, this is a credible and engrossing re-creation of the early days of silent movies and aviation. In a Faster than Light Podcast interview, Elizabeth Knox explains how she changes the names of her main characters (such as the identifiable Howard Hughes) but retains contemporary fictitious characters created by Scott Fitzgerald. A sequel is promised! Itself a sequel to the bestseller The Vintner’s Cut, soon to be released as a film, Knox reckons The Angel’s Cut “persecuted her” until she was forced to write it, despite interruptions from other novels in between. Read this one, see the film, get caught up in a fallen angel’s moral dilemmas! AurealisMagazine | Sep 19, 2009 | 1  tamaranth | Jul 12, 2009 |
 Amid this riot of imagination, Knox's signature move has been a willingness to grapple with issues as universal as the character of God and the idea of destiny. Belongs to Series
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air.But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. And Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed - Lucifer, who has lost Xas once, but won't let that be the end of it. No library descriptions found. |
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