NIGHT'S DAUGHTER [Mass Market Paperback]

Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (January 12, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345309200
• ISBN-13: 978-0345309204
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,448,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels and for her Arthurian novel, THE MISTS OF AVALON.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS, which is still published annually under the title MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S SWORD AND SORCERESS.
She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, May 8, 2000

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C. J. Colli (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NIGHT'S DAUGHTER (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is so full of symbols. It is a wonderful book, but aht else can you expect from the great Marion Zimmer Bradley? True, it is not completely like Mozart's wonderful opera, but then who says it should be? I wish it was back in print!

2 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mozart said it SO much more eloquently in The Magic Flute!, September 21, 1999

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This review is from: NIGHT'S DAUGHTER (Mass Market Paperback)

Years ago I somehow forced myself to slog through The Mists of Avalon, and, not having enjoyed it, swore an oath never to read a novel by this author. A colleague working on a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute with me gave me a copy of Night's Daughter, Bradley's novelization of this terrifically weird and breathtaking opera. Being fascinated by takes on the opera, I made an exception to my anti-Bradley rule; yet I have emerged only with further disdain for Bradley. These characters are ciphers; this prose is trite; this novel has no structure. Granted, people have said the same things of the opera. But the ritual of participating in a theatrical event, and of listening to beloved music, achieve the effect Bradley (in her author's note) hoped to achieve in fantasy literature: of illuminating the spectator's inner life with powerful archetypes, of causing each of us to go on a journey and emerge a greater person. A good performance of the opera will accomplish this magic. Bradley's novel, sadly, accomplishes nothing; truly, hers is the empty bluster of the Queen of the Night.