The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox

The Vintner's Luck won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards. It was also shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize. In 2001 it was awarded the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. 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.

Publisher:	Victoria University Press
Year:	2001
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780864733818
Condition:	Good
Description:	Signed. 'Autographed Edition' sticker on cover.

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SKU: 1603520
Location: NZ Fiction