The Vintner's Luck

by Elizabeth Knox

3 of 5 stars 1 rating • 1 review • 2 shelved
Book cover for The Vintner's Luck
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. They meet again every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

  • ISBN10 0374283923
  • ISBN13 9780374283926
  • Publish Date 3 December 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 283
  • Language English