Wings Of Power - Softcover

Carl, Lillian Stewart

3.18

11 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441855490 ISBN 13: 9780441855490

Publisher: Ace, 1989

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To save Gard's life from a young girl's avenging father, the emperor sends him into exile in a desert monastery in the Mohan Valley

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An interesting re-telling of an old legend. The ending is full of twists, unpredictable, with a delightfu discussion of death and glory.

An intense tale, a complex and fascinating plot... resonances between adolescent lust and mature love, between interior and exterior beauty, and between faith and skepticism underlie the story with a steely webwork of reality. Carl may well be the finest stylist working in fantasy today.

From the Author:

Wings of Power is the fourth book of a series that was inspired by two sentences in a Smithsonian Magazine: "Which Alexander the Great shall it be? Shall it be the libertine who married three women and slept with at least four mistresses, a eunuch and even--or was this merely legend--an Amazon?"

By this book I've gotten a long way from the original two characters--Gard is their grandchild. About halfway through Wings of Power you'll catch the myth that inspired it--a simple little story about a war between the Greeks and the Trojans....

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