Swan Song - Softcover

McCammon, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067162413X ISBN 13: 9780671624132

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Robert R. McCammon

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Review:

Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces. Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King's The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like The Stand, it's an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it's the world after a nuclear holocaust. Swan Song won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It's a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works.

About the Author:

Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the award-winning and critically acclaimed Boy’s Life. There are more than four million copies of his books in print.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 067162413X
• ISBN 13: 9780671624132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 956