Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 864 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; Media Tie In, Reprint edition (March 22, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 6
• ISBN-13: 16
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.4 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

Review “The major fantasy of the decade . . . compulsively readable.”—Denver
Post”We have been invited to a grand feast and pageant: George R.R. Martin has
unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world.”—Chicago
Sun-Times”A Best Book of 1996: Martin makes a triumphant return to high
fantasy . . . [with] superbly developed characters, accomplished prose, and
sheer bloodymindedness.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review”A splendid saga . .
. . Inventive and intricately plotted.”—BookPage “Magic . . . George
R.R.Martin’s first fantasy epic [is set] well above the norms of the
genre.”—Locus”Such a splendid tale and such a fantasticorical! I read my eyes
out and couldn’t stop ’til I finished and it was dawn.”—Anne McCaffrey Read
more From the Inside Flap “A Game of Thrones is a contemporary masterpiece of
fantasy. The cold is returning to Winterfell, where summers can last decades
and winters a lifetime. A time of conflict has arisen in the Stark family, as
they are pulled from the safety of their home into a whirlpool of tragedy,
betrayal, assassination, plots and counterplots. Each decision and action
carries with it the potential for conflict as several prominent families,
comprised of lords, ladies, soldiers, sorcerers, assassins and bastards, are
pulled together in the most deadly game of all–the game of thrones. Read more
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