{"product_id":"saint-leibowitz-and-the-wild-horse-woman-paperback","title":"Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA millennium ago, the poisonous flames of nuclear war ended the \"Magna Civitas\" of the 20th century. Now, a lowly monk, Brother Blacktooth St. George, has come to a Rocky Mountain monastery and is about to discover the forbidden torments and strange delights of the Wild Horse Woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind . . . . \u003cbr\u003eIsolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh . . . and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named drea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh...and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named AEdrea, he begins to wonder: Is she a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter M. Miller, Jr. grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote \u003cb\u003eA Canticle for Leibowitz\u003c\/b\u003e. The sequel, \u003cb\u003eSaint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman\u003c\/b\u003e, followed after nearly forty years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTerry Bisson is the award-winning author of numerous short stories as well as the novels \u003cb\u003eTalking Man\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eVoyage to the Red Planet\u003c\/b\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.12 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378849181798,"sku":"9780553380798","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bmzUfxfvWN9780553380798.webp?v=1768912435","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/saint-leibowitz-and-the-wild-horse-woman-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}