George Raymond Richard Martin, A Feast for Crows

Lars Johnson (Cornell University)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2005

Places

United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Fantasy

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A Feast for Crows

(2005) is the fourth volume in George R.R. Martin’s epic neomedieval fantasy series,

A Song of Ice and Fire

(1996-present). The novel topped the

New York Times

bestseller list and received Hugo and Locus award nominations.

A Feast for Crows

has been adapted as HBO’s

Game of Thrones

(2011-2019), primarily as the series’ fifth season.

While A Feast for Crows picks up where its predecessor A Storm of Swords (2000) left off, due to the substantial length of the manuscript, Martin chose to split the novel in two during the publishing process. Thus, A Feast for Crows only contains chapters narrated by about half of the series’ surviving viewpoint characters. The other half of the narrative is told in A Dance with Dragons (2011), the first portion of which takes place

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Citation: Johnson, Lars. "A Feast for Crows". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 November 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39021, accessed 08 May 2024.]

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