- Fiction, Military occupation, Women heroes, Fantasy
Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico .
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Carey, Susan Ericksen
- First published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, Grand Central Pub., Tantor Audio
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780446198172
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American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
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