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Outlawed at birth and raised by two remarkable old women, Demne sets out on a perilous journey to find the secret of his parentage, unaware that the strange worlds of men and monsters will reveal to him a glorious destiny. Reprint.
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Diana L. Paxson is the award-winning author of The Lord of Horses, The Wolf and the Raven, The Dragons of the Rhine, The White Raven, and The Serpents Tooth, and coauthor (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes) of Master of Earth and Water, The Shield Between the Worlds, and Sword of Fire and Shadow, the chronicles of Fionn mac Cumhal. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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Paxson has carved out her niche in fantasy with recastings of Tristan and Isolde in The White Raven (1988), and King Lear in The Serpent's Tooth (1991). Now, with an assist from Martine- Barnes, she launches a three-volume retelling of the legend of Fionn mac Cumhall (Finn MacCool)--a retelling that, unfortunately, starts out looking like the mustiest sort of generic fantasy, with a long list of Irish character and place names in dauntingly authentic spelling, and a foreword with a list of suggested reading. But then the story of the hero's youth kicks into gear, and the book comes to life wonderfully. We see Fionn as an orphan and an exile in the forest, raised by the druidess Bobdmall and the warrior woman Liath Luachra. He travels to the king's fair, making both friends and enemies while he beats all comers at running and spear-throwing; he visits the Sidhe, has visions, slays monsters; he is a servant to noble lords and apprentice to a blacksmith, then a poet. In the end, Fionn comes to accept both his identity and his destiny. Overall, an unusually good Celtic fantasy: it's sometimes prone to bathos--Fionn often pauses in the midst of dramatic events to ponder some mundane question--but the high points of the story sing, and leave the reader with an appetite for the volumes to follow. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0380758016
- ISBN 13 9780380758012
- BindingPaperback
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