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The Wizard Knight

Gene Wolfe

A thrilling, emotionally riveting tale of wonders by one of the field's greatest writers

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THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past.
A teenager passes from Earth to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is given a hero's adult body and named Able. Though forced to act as a man, inside he is still a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a knight.
In his quest he battles giants, meets gods, heroes and a sorceress (who repeatedly tries to seduce him), and serves the mercurial dragon king Arnthor in a was that could end everything.

 

"A sophisticated meditation on dream and on the nature of fiction and its illusion. Wolfe deserves respect for the endless invention with which he not only subverts genre convention but challenges the assumption of all fiction."

Roz Kaeveny

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Buy The Wizard Knight from Amazon
£20.00
Hardback
928 pages
234 x 153 mm
ISBN-10: 0575077093
ISBN-13: 9780575077096
Publication: September 2005
'the wizard knight' is also available in paperback format
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