Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553380796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind .Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named Ædrea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn betwee
"Edward Abbey, meet Walter M. Miller, Jr. Mr. Miller, meet Edward Abbey." according to bmuse. Author Miller wrote and published "A Canticle for Leibowitz", and for many, that book defines Miller. "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman", while it returns to the mountains, plains, grasslands, and river canyons of "Canticle," does so from a perspective that is . A church tapestry of politics and traditions Stephen A. Haines One author sets murders in a medieval Roman Catholic monastery and it becomes an object of popular acclaim. Another author sets Papal politics in a post-nuclear holocaust society and it's dubbed "Sci-fi", and tossed in the remainders bin. Neither book deserved the fate. Five Stars Follow up on Canticle for Leibowitz, wildly inventive and thoughtful
Brownpony is involved in a complex scheme to break the rule of the Hannegan Empire, which dominates the 35th-century's post-apocalypse world. This is the 30-years-in-coming sequel to Walter M. Miller's seminal work, A Canticle for Leibowitz. Even though Brownpony's plans will ultimately restore both the world and the declining Papacy to some form of order, he is not a religious man, although he is drawn to those who are. . George, a fallen monk of the Leibowitz order who becomes secretary to the politically ambitious Cardinal Brownpony. It chronicles the odyssey of Brother Blacktooth St. He sees something profoundly religious in Blacktooth, who on the surface seems to be a disgraced monk foundering in confusion because of his love for a woman, his