7/8/2023 0 Comments Aztec blood gary jennings![]() ![]() Spiced with medieval flavor, the novel will captivate readers willing to commit themselves to a long, detailed, sometimes ploddingly written but ultimately intoxicating narrative. Through the androgynous Thorn, attuned to the war betwen the masculine and feminine sides of his nature, Jennings subtly explores the gender-based roles imposed by society. For all its sexual titillation and gory battles, this majestically paced epic with its unconventional hero consistently rewards as it leads readers through exotic byways of the fragmented Roman Empire, delving into pagan customs, Christian mysteries, corruption, slavery and the tolerant Arianism embraced by the Goths but condemned by the Catholic Church as a heresy. This item: Aztec Blood: 3 by Gary Jennings Paperback 6.20 Aztec Autumn: 2 by Gary Jennings Paperback 18.70 FREE Delivery Aztec Autumn: 2 Gary Jennings 167 Paperback 13 offers from 15.46 Aztec: Written by Gary Jennings, 1980 Edition, Publisher: Atheneum Hardcover Gary Jennings 902 Hardcover 14 offers from 17. 454-526), king of the Ostrogoths, depicted here as a benevolent despot. He serves as field marshal, sidekick and spy for bloody Theodoric (A.D. ![]() Rugged yet sensitive, usually dressed as a man, Thorn is to elim fragment raptorial (i.e., predatory) in his thirst for lovers, male and female, and for adventure. ![]() Evicted from a monastery and a convent, Thorn is then schooled in the ways of the world by the grumpy, blasphemous woodsman Wyrd. In the opening pages of Jennings's ( Aztec ) massive, audacious historical novel about the Gothic conquest of the Roman Empire, Thorn, the hermaphrodite hero/heroine, is seduced first by a monk and then by a nun. ![]()
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