# Tooth and Claw - Paperback

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by **Jo Walton** (Author)

**A tale of contention over love and money--among dragons**

Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with _The King's Peace_, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Now Walton returns with _Tooth and Claw_, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.

Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.

Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.

You have never read a novel like _Tooth and Claw._

### Author Biography

**Jo Walton**'s debut novel _The King's Peace_ earned her the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. More recently, _Farthing_ was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Quill Award, and won the _Romantic Times_ Critic's Choice Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** January 06, 2009

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Tooth and Claw

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6.9

**Point Value:** 17

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