A Canticle for Leibowitz (Library Edition)

Walter M. Miller Jr.

ISBN 10: 1455120227 / ISBN 13: 9781455120222

Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc., UNITED STATES, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Library Edition)
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., UNITED STATES
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455120227
• ISBN 13: 9781455120222
• Binding: AUDIO CD
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

One of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, this is a chilling, provocative look at a postapocalyptic future. A true landmark of twentieth-century literature.

In a nightmarish, ruined world, slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infantile rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.

About the Author

WALTER M. MILLER, JR., (1923-1996) grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz. The sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, published posthumously and completed by a different author, followed nearly forty years later.