Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie doesn’t go on sale until the end of September, but lots of love for the debut novel as already been pouring in. Check out these stellar starred reviews!
“Enthralling…Christie demonstrates a printer’s precision in her painstakingly meticulous account of quattrocento innovation, technology, politics, art, and commerce.” — Publishers Weekly
“An inspiring tale of ambition, camaraderie, betrayal, and cultural transformation based on actual events and people, this wonderful novel fully inhabits its age.” — Booklist
“Christie masterfully depicts the time and energy required to print the first Bibles…all against a catastrophic backdrop of plague, the fall of Constantinople, the violent superstitions of the peasantry, and a vested intelligentsia fearing the press would generate ‘crude words crudely wrought…smut and prophecy, the ranting of anarchists and antichrists’…A bravura debut.” —Kirkus Reviews
Don’t miss out! You still have plenty of time to grab Gutenberg’s Apprentice from Edelweiss.
-Amanda