- Fantasy, Fiction, Xanth (Imaginary place), American Fantasy fiction
Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare!From the Paperback edition.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Piers Anthony
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Tandem Library, Del Rey
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345418548
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Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England. When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble. After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance. In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen. He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper. He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida.
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