- Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Xanth (Imaginary place)
Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....From the Paperback edition.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Piers Anthony
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 329
- Publisher
- Orbit, Random House Publishing Group, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345418517
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“Millie the ghost was beautiful.”
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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