The Fresco

Sheri S. Tepper

Original title: The fresco

earliest edition we have, 2000 Harper Voyager, 2002 paperback 480 pages

The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States-unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths-seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens who request that she transmit a "message of peace" to the powers-that-be in Washington, D.C. Suddenl...

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Editions we hold

Fresco edition · 2011 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9780575116351
The Fresco edition · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780061976353
The Fresco paperback · 2002 · Gollancz · 416 pages · 9780575072886
The Fresco paperback · 2002 · Harper Voyager · 480 pages · 9780380816583
The Fresco paperback · 2001 · Gollancz · 416 pages · 9780575071926
The fresco edition · 2001 · Gollancz · 406 pages · 9780575071919
The fresco edition · 2000 · EOS · 406 pages

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