- Fiction, Imagination, Older men, Science fiction
From back cover: PEACE is the life story of Alden Dennis Weer, an eccentric old man living out his last days and fantasies in an obscure Midwestern town. It is also much more -- an extraordinary combination of the mythic vision of fantasy and the thrilling, disquieting suspense of a mastercrafted ghost story. PEACE will awaken your dreams -- and put you in touch with a magical reality that lies just below the surface of everyday life.
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Contemplative, grave, intimate and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- New English Library, Orb Books, Diane Pub Co
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780765334565
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Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic f
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