Red Prophet - Brossura

Card, Orson Scott

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ISBN 10: 0812524268 ISBN 13: 9780812524260

Casa editrice: Tor Fantasy, 1992

Riassunto

In an America that might have been, Alvin Maker, the seventh son of a seventh son, learns about the land and its chosen people and discovers how to use his own mysterious powers. By the author of Seventh Son. Reissue.

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L'autore:

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

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Red Prophet
Volume II of the Tales of Alvin Maker

"Suddenly the saga of Alvin Maker begins to thrill."—Washington Post Book World

"Red Prophet is but a section of a vast American fantasy epic. It is vividly written, and the principal actors—Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and Alvin's Gandalfesque mentor Taleswapper—are all complete and memorable characters."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.

"Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than Seventh Son, this novel superbly demonstrates Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling."—Booklist

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tor Fantasy
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0812524268
• ISBN 13: 9780812524260
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 311