Knight Life - Hardcover

David, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441009360 ISBN 13: 9780441009367

Publisher: Ace, 2002

Synopsis

Arthur Pendragon arrives in modern-day New York City with his friend Merlin the Magician and decides to run for mayor, but Morgan Le Fey and Modred try to keep Arthur from reaching his goal.

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About the Author

Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: television, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them.

Reviews

Arthurian legend gets another kick in the pants with this rollicking rewrite of bestseller David's first novel, originally published in 1987. Extensively updated and lovingly revised, this hilarious romp in today's New York features a cast of zany characters, zippy dialogue and enough action and plot twists to satisfy most satirical fantasy fans. After 10 long centuries spent trapped in a magical cave, King Arthur is finally rescued by a pint-sized, wisecracking Merlin, who has aged backwards enough to slip through the bars of his own prison. The "once and future king" arrives, in armor, no less, on the streets of the Big Apple. Soon, with the help of Master Merlin, the charmingly anachronistic and good-hearted "Arthur Penn" is running for mayor of New York. Meanwhile, much to Arthur's dismay, the reincarnated but unemployed Guinevere, aka Gwen DeVere Queen, is already living with Lance, an unpublished and also unemployed "misunderstood" writer. Morgan, aka Morgana le Fey, Arthur's half-sister sorceress, bored and gone to seed in a dumpy New Jersey apartment, becomes angry enough to get back into fighting form when she discovers her spell has been broken. With the help of Moe Dreskin (aka her bastard son, Modred, PR whiz and erstwhile murderer of his royal father), Morgan schemes to put Arthur and Merlin back where they belong. But she has no idea just how determined Arthur's eclectic election team is to fight back and reinvent Camelot in the "kingdom" of Manhattan.
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That once and future king is back and running for mayor--of New York! What better way or place, after all, to begin bringing back the ideals of Camelot--honesty, chivalry, justice, and leadership that people can believe in and rely on? Arthur promised he would return when there was great need, and so he has, and Merlin with him. Gradually, several of the old gang reconnect and become Arthur's election committee: Grail knight Percival, now a sad drunk; Lancelot, now an abusive, loser boyfriend; and Arthur's eternally beloved Jenny, now, of course, Lance's sorry partner. Astonished by but taken with Arthur's genuineness and great spirit, cynical but good New Yorkers open their hearts and slowly begin to believe that the world can be a better place. Bad guys Morgan Le Fay and her bastard son Modred are, however, also on hand, determined to destroy Arthur once and for all. King Arthur's NYC court is an old-new story for our time, with a fresh and very funny perspective. Paula Luedtke
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A New York mayoral election takes an unexpected turn when a new, independent candidate appears on the scene, running on a platform of common sense, humor, and knightly virtues. Assisted by his advisers, a ten-year-old boy genius named Merlin, an immortal accountant known as Percival, and a troubled young woman called Gwen, the newcomer, who calls himself Arthur Penn, proceeds to take the town by storm until the arrival of a pair of old enemies threatens to re-create the tragedy of the Arthurian legend. This revised and expanded version of David's first novel (Sir Apropos of Nothing), originally published in 1987 and now out of print, is filled with genuine wit, irony, and keen observations of human nature. It belongs in most libraries where Arthurian fiction is popular.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441009360
• ISBN 13: 9780441009367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343