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Cargando... The Way to Babylon (edición 1993)por Paul Kearney (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Way to Babylon por Paul Kearney
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Great stuff. I was familiar with Paul Kearney's work from his Monarchies of God series, but wasn't sure about this one at first....the title didn't click with me. I'm very happy I gave it a chance, though. Kearney is one of the best fantasy writers out there, and even with his earlier material it shows. This one feels a bit more like traditional fantasy than some of his others, but it has his usual deft characterization and willingness to let his characters suffer real damage. I plan to read his other "Different Kingdoms" novel now, having read this one. Fans of Joe Abercrombie, R. Scott Bakker, and others will likely enjoy this. ( ) http://nhw.livejournal.com/847572.html A rather lyrically done tale of a fantasy novelist who is recovering from an accident in which his wife died, and finds himself sucked bodily into the world he has created - or has he? Was it perhaps "really" there all the time? The protagonist's grief and healing are nicely observed. It would be very easy to fall into being twee with a plot like this, and Kearney skilfully avoids that trap. All very well described. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Broken, bereaved and happy to let his fans go without the next book in his bestselling series, fantasy author Michael Riven expects to go home to his isolated cabin and avoid people. But instead strangers seek him out and lead him on a journey away from this world and into Minginish, the imaginary place where his own novels were set, but which is more real than he can conceive - and in danger from legendary beats and unimagined terrors. Michael Riven has fallen off a mountain. The bestselling fantasy author is broken in both body and mind, as the fall also claimed his wife and climbing partner Jenny. Readers are desperate to know what will happen next in the fantasy world Minginish, but neither writing, nor living, are of interest to the author as he lies in traction and his heart bleeds. But there are others seeking the scribe out. Men - and someone who is not all human - have begun a quest to find a way to rescue their blighted homeland, and their road will take them between worlds. Michael Riven will return to his home in Scotland; he will accompany a stranger out into the hills and find himself led not over the local landscape but into a place altogether more familiar and terrifying: Minginish itself, a real place more surprising and unpredictable even than the world of his novels. Beasts of myth and legend stalk a land where the seasons have gone awry. Michael must take up the companions of his stories - Bicker, Ratagan and Murtach - and find a way to mend the sundered world. If he can, he may even find that Jenny's existence did not end that day on the mountain. The Way to Babylon was Paul Kearney's debut novel, and this is its first publication in North America. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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