CUGEL'S SAGA

Vance, Jack

ISBN 10: 0671494503 / ISBN 13: 9780671494506

Published by TIMESCAPE. NY 1983, 1983

About this Item

Signed First Edition with full number line in Fine/Near Fine condition. Pages are crisp and bear no notes, though the top edges are beginning to show foxing. Binding is tight and firm. Dustjacket is protected in a clear removable brodart cover. NOT an ex-library copy. We ship promptly from the United States and in a box.

Seller Inventory # 38,335x

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CUGEL'S SAGA
• Publisher: TIMESCAPE. NY 1983
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671494503
• ISBN 13: 9780671494506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers, but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homer’s Odyssey, and Cervante's Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarns, in the twenty-first century, they may be as close as one gets to the celebration of epic human perseverance."--editor, Brilliance Audio Cugel’s Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, is the second novel that features the scoundrel and trickster, Cugel. Again, Cugel tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers himself. “Cugel the Clever [is] a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Do-Right. How could you not love a guy like that? .... Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back ... you can’t keep a bad man down.” —George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. “Cugel the Clever [is] a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves.... Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find, struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too, and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny.” —Kage Baker, author of Empress of Mars.

About the Author

Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Last Castle. He lives in Oakland, California.