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Winter Rose begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet's beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever.

Traces of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois's story. Patricia McKillip's consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Woods-wise and free-spirited, Rois Melior is the opposite of her sensible sister, Laurel. But both Rois, who narrates, and Laurel fall under the spell of the stranger who enters their world. Decades ago, according to village gossip, Tearle Lynn murdered his father and mysteriously disappeared. Now Tearle's son, Corbet, has come home to rebuild crumbling Lynn Hall. Despite her attraction to Corbet, Rois is warned by her otherworldly senses that he is not what he seems. As Laurel falls hard for Corbet, Rois searches for the truth about the Lynns, but the answers she finds lead only to more questions. When Corbet disappears, Laurel begins to sicken and fade. To save her sister as well as Corbet, Rois will have to come to terms with the secret of her own changeling identity. The pace here is deliberate and sure, with no false steps; the writing is richly textured and evocative. McKillip (The Book of Atrix Wolf, and winner in 1975 of a World Fantasy Award for her novel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Ace Trade (June 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0441009344
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441009343
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #617,616 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A poem, a riddle, a dream, August 17, 2000
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Ms. McKillip has woven magic into this book. A tale of falling sunlight, drowning roses, shadowy green eyes, sweet perfumed water, cold winter days, half-seen images: of fey and the ordinary, of a hidden secret, a hidden sorrow in the Lynn legends. This is the story of Rois, the untamed, witch-like daughter of a farmer, and how, by loving the fey Corbet Lynn and ferreting out his secrets, following him through dreams and reality, she finally becomes human. A poignant tale, I cried at times, swept away by the emotional power of Ms. McKillip's poetic prose. I have never read anything so beautiful. So sad. I love this book very much. Not only was it amazing trying to follow Rois and Corbet through realms beyond, but trying to distinguish what was dream and what was reality. The imagery used, the symbolism, was so otherworldly in its significance, in its beauty, that I was awed as well as moved much of the time. I wish Patricia McKillip's other books were as this one. By making it a first-person-narrative you never lose focus of the character while becoming adrift in the world. Again, this really was very beautiful (there is no other word; it's like a melody that stirs the soul) and I was spell-bound.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Vision of a Tale, February 14, 2003
How can two sisters be so different? Laurel is beautiful, proper, thoughtful, and utterly sensible. She calmly cares for her widowed father and plans her wedding to her childhood sweetheart. Rois is a wild freespirit who roams the woods by day and sometimes by night searching for something even she could not name. But they soon discover that they have one thing in common...his name is Corbet Lynn...

Corbet returns to his father's childhood home and begins restoration work amid a storm of rumors and gossip. Corbet's grandfather was murdered in that house and most believe that Corbet's father was the guilty party. But all know, whether his son murdered him or not, that the old man used his last breath to place a dreadful curse on his son...and his son's descendents.

Almost as soon as Rois sets eyes upon the young man, she is determined to unravel the mysteries of his past. But her fascination with his unusual history is soon replaced by feelings that are much stronger. She never expected that she would give her heart so easily...or that her feelings would not be returned when she did. It would seem that Corbet has taken a fancy to Laurel...who returns his feelings whole heartedly, fiancee or no.

But Rois can not back out of the picture as easily as she got into it. As the curse begins to bear fruit, Rois finds herself tangled in its web. She realizes that it is up to her to save the man she loves...even if she saves him so that he can freely love another...her own sister. What Rois didn't count on was the truths she would learn about her own past...and her surprising destiny...

Reading this book was like looking at a beautiful painting. The word pictures are marvelous and the emotions are almost too real. Readers are swept away in a tide of romance, jealousy, hatred, and mystery. Fantasy readers will love it!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The quest for erotic and personal truth, May 1, 2005
By Avant-Captain_Nemo (Aboard my black outlaw submarine cruising through the sewers in a city near you.) - See all my reviews
Patricia McKillip is one of America's best writers and in this book she returns to a theme dear to her heart - the quest for personal identity. The quest is carried on through language that is so profound and developed one feels like one is hallucinating while reading the story. Wrapped in clouds of glory, beauty, and mystery one follows the narrator Rois who knows that truth is at the bottom of a well. Others fall for the mysterious stranger Corbet Lynn in the most superficial way but Rois seeks to penetrate the glamor to the secret within Corbet's courtesy and personal beauty. This story tells us that the erotic quest is fulfilled in being true to ourselves despite the gnawing logic of the temptations that would seek to mislead us from our chosen path.
Patricia Mckillip began writing of these themes with her epic fantasy classic "The Riddle Master" trilogy. Over time she has transformed herself into a magician of words as good as her contemporaries like Catherynne Valente (The Labyrinth) and Greer Ilene Gilman (Moonwise). These three crowned ladies are the greatest prose stylists since Vladimir Nabokov.
Five stars for Ms. McKillip - each one made of the purest silver!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A breathless hallucination
This is a beautifully written, near-hallucinatory little novel, almost breathless in its telling of the story of a young man, Corbet Lynn, who returns to the ruins of his... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Minsma

5.0 out of 5 stars "I Bequeath All to the Woods..."
The first time I read Patricia McKillip, I didn't get very far. The book was the Riddle-Master, and I was completely unprepared for her complex use of language. Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. M. Fisher

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, dream-like fairy tale
This one was pure poetry. Reminded me very much of Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, although a completely different story about a completely different season, almost like the other side... Read more
Published 9 months ago by R. Lewis

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but forgettable
This is so embarrassing, but this will be the third time I've read this novel and I still cannot remember a thing about it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Bobby Z

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful prose, engaging story
A young man returns to his father's ancient and ruined house and begins to rebuild, while rumors swirl through the village of a fifty-year-old curse on the man's family. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Diane Gallant

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tale of Love, Family, and Faerie
Rois Melior is a wild child. A disconnect exists between her and the human world, not only because she walks barefoot or forgets the time while wandering in the woods (forever... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Eventide

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK WAS HORRIBLE
Okay I would first like to start by saying that I am an avid reader, who enjoys many types of books (even though i'm only 14). Read more
Published 17 months ago by Maegan Book

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent writing, world, and premise
Winter Rose is typical of Patricia A. McKillip's recent work. It is extremely well written and evokes not only the images of her created worlds, but the textures and scents as... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Josh More

3.0 out of 5 stars A vague, inarticulate tale
Sometimes McKillip writes the way I would talk if I had marbles in my mouth. This is one of those times.
Published on April 22, 2007 by City Witch

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and Dreamlike
I devoured "Winter Rose" in one sitting, held rapt by its spell. It is a fascinating read, because of the way McKillip uses gorgeous language to depict the dark and magical... Read more
Published on December 25, 2006 by Calliope Silancime

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