| St. Leibowitz and Wild Horse Contributor(s): Miller, Walter M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553380796 ISBN-13: 9780553380798 Publisher: Bantam OUR PRICE: $19.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind.... Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh...and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named AEdrea, he begins to wonder: Is she a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.96" W x 9.12" (1.42 lbs) 448 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind . . . . Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh . . . and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named AEdrea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself? |