Neveryóna

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480461741

<DIV><DIV><b>In this novel of Nev&egrave;r&yuml;on, a girl takes off on a dragon&rsquo;s back for an adventure of amazement and wonder</b></div><DIV><BR>One of the few in Nev&egrave;r&yuml;on who can read and write, pryn has saddled a wild dragon and taken off from a mountain ledge. Self-described as an adventurer, warrior, and thief, in her journey pryn will meet plotting merchants, sinister aristocrats, half-mad villagers, and a storyteller who claims to have invented writing itself. The land of Nev&egrave;r&yuml;on is mired in a civil war over slavery, and pryn will also find herself&mdash;for a while&mdash;fighting alongside Gorgik the Liberator, from whom she will learn the cunning she needs as she journeys further and further south in search of a sunken city; for at history&rsquo;s dawn, some dangers even dragons cannot protect you from.</div><DIV><BR>The second volume in Samuel R. Delany&rsquo;s Return to Nev&egrave;r&yuml;on cycle,&#160;<i>Nevery&oacute;na&#160;</i>is the longer of its two full-length novels. (The other is&#160;<i>The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals</i>.) An intriguing meditation on the power of language, the rise of cities, and the dawn of myth, markets, and money, it is a truly wonder-filled adventure.</div><DIV><BR>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.</div><DIV></div></div>