- Alvin Maker (Fictitious character), Fiction, Magic, Frontier and pioneer life
Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person's future--or their hearts.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and richly built.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, L'Atalante Editions, Prószyński i S-ka
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788466633079
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“IT SEEMED LIKE everybody and his brother was in Nueva Barcelona these days.”
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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