Engine Summer
$25.57
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2013
Summary
In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying ‘Angels’ of the past are barely remembered.
But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575082816 |
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| ISBN-10: | 057508281X |
| Author: | John Crowley |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 135mm x 19mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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About The Author
John Crowley
John Crowley was born in 1942 and has worked in documentary films and TV since 1966. The Deep, his first SF novel, was published in 1975 and was followed by BEASTS, ENGINE SUMMER and Great Work of Time. In his later work, LITTLE, BIG, Aegypt and Love and Sleep, he has moved into writing fantasy to great critical acclaim.
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