The Fifth Sacred Thing
$45.85
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1994
Summary
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.
Declaration of the Four Sacred Things
The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred- air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553373806 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553373803 |
| Author: | Starhawk |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1994 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 152mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Maya Greenwood |
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Critics Review
“This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator“Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus“Totally captivating … a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess“This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal
About The Author
Starhawk
Starhawk, author of The Fifth Sacred Thing and Walking to Mercury, lives with her husband, stepchildren, and Goddess-children in San Francisco, where she works with the Reclaiming collective.
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