The Wizard Knight
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
4.3
Gene Wolfe
“Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.” —Neil Gaiman on The KnightA novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of works of fantasy like The Once and Future King, or The Wizard of Earthsea, that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time.A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero—a true knight. Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead...“[Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.” —The Washington Post on The Knight“Wolfe’s version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous.” —Tad Williams on The KnightWith a new introduction by Yves Meynard, acclaimed author of The Book of Knights.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author
Gene Wolfe
Pages
912
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2020-08-11
ISBN
1250791618 9781250791610
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"The Wizard Knight begins as a letter from one brother to another about their journey away from the ordinary world we experience into one that is both familiar and strange. Wolfe's writing is sublime and within a few, short pages I was wrapped up in this story. I couldn't put it down as I devoured chapter after chapter. Utterly fantastic from beginning to end!"
"When I read this (waiting firm them to arrive in the bookstore), it was in two separate books—The Knight and The Wizard. Since it is by Gene Wolfe, it is an out of the ordinary story with out of the ordinary characters. (I may just have to read this again, now that I’m thinking about it.)"
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