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The HUGO AWARD-winning novel of Earth after the apocalypse
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge.
By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise humanity from its fallen state to one of grace.
But is such knowledge the key to salvation? Or the certain sign that we are doomed to repeat our most grievous mistakes ... ?
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Descrizione del libro
The HUGO AWARD-winning novel of Earth after the apocalypse.
L'autore
Walter M. Miller Jr (1923- 1996)
Walter Michael Miller Jr grew up in the American south. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor and spent most of the war as a radio operator and gunner, participating in fifty-five combat sorties over Italy and the Balkans, including the assault on Monte Cassino. After the war he studied engineering before turning to writing. A Canticle for Leibowitz won a Hugo Award, and his only other novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horsewoman was published posthumously.
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- EditoreOrion Publishing Co
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 0575073578
- ISBN 13 9780575073579
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine336
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