Bearing an Hourglass (Book Two of Incarnations of Immortality) - Hardcover

Piers Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345313143 ISBN 13: 9780345313140

Publisher: Del Rey, 1984

Synopsis

Norton, grief-stricken over the death of his child and the suicide of his beloved, volunteers to become the Incarnation of Time and finds himself enmeshed in Satan's foul plot to destroy all that is good

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From the Inside Flap:

emed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good....

About the Author:

Piers Anthony, sometimes called Pier Xanthony, is the pseudonym of a Mundane character who was born in England in 1934, came to America in 1940, was naturalized in 1958, and moved to Xanth in 1977. His first story was published in 1963, and his first novel, Chthon, in 1967. His first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, won the August Derleth Fantasy Award as the best novel for 1977, and his fantasy novels began placing on the New York Times bestseller list with Ogre, Ogre. He shifted from writing in pencil to writing on the computer, and Golem in the Gears was his first novel created on the machine; naturally, the computer found its way into Xanth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0345313143
• ISBN 13: 9780345313140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293