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Audie Honor Nominee, Multi-voiced Performance, 2013Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman individually selected this reserve, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrators and produced this improve his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents.The Privilege of the Sword tells the story of a girl who challenges everything to go live with her eccentric, litigious - and extremely abundant - uncle Alec in the vibrant city Kushner has generated, a city where elegant nobles can mingle with raffish celebrities one point in time and deadly swordsmen another. Admirers of Kushner's first reserve, Swordspoint, will already be familiar with Alec as the angry young scholar with strange origins, residing in the city's Riverside area with a notorious killer swordsman. Now, in The Privilege of the Sword, some years later, Alec is the Mad Duke Tremontaine, residing in a mansion on the Hill, still tortured by his past.... But you don't need to have read Swordspoint to enjoy The Privilege of the Sword. This is actually the history of Katherine herself, a girl who begins imagining her life is a sort of Jane Austen-style love, full of dances and dresses and people - but finds that her iconoclastic uncle has other ideas. When she gets to his house in the city, the Mad Duke dresses Sweetheart Katherine in men's clothes, gets her a first-rate tutor in swordplay, and pieces her loose on a normal world that's not really ready for her.... Nor, at first, is she ready for it. A few words from Neil on Privilege of the Sword: "Life hands us so many occasions when we hover between who we were brought up to be, who the people around us are trying to make us, and who we are trying to become. In Katherine's circumstance, that means encountering a variety of individuals and behaviors her mom never well prepared her for - including some stunning acts of assault, both physical and emotional. As you of Kushner's most captivating characters, an celebrity known as 'The Black colored Rose', sighs, 'It's all so very difficult, until you get the hang of computer.'" In this thrilling new "lighted production", the writer herself reads her own work, recognized by a full cast. Publisher Ellen Kushner is also a popular performer and National Public Radio web host (Acoustics & Heart). Much like her earlier audiobooks, the award-winning Witches of Lublin and Swordspoint, Ellen teamed up with Sue Zizza of SueMedia Productions to light up certain key views with some truly stunning sensible elements, including original music commissioned just for this reserve (!) by composer Nathaniel Tronerud. Ellen Kushner reads every one of the first-person narration from Katherine's own perspective. In views where an omniscient narrator gets control, we've called on the amazing talents of the award-winning professional Barbara Rosenblat, a woman who's been called "the Meryl Streep of audiodrama". The ensemble also features Joe Hurley (Alec Campion: the Mad Duke Tremontaine), Felicia Day (Katherine Talbert), Nick Sullivan (Lord Ferris; Arthur Ghent), Katherine Kellgren (Sweetheart Artemesia Fitz-Levi; Teresa Grey; Flavia "the Ugly Woman"), and Neil Gaiman himself (Rogues' Ball Musician)! The artwork used here's a genuine painting and design by Thomas Canty created solely for the Neil Gaiman Presents audiobook release of The Privilege of the Sword.
