Enfant de Nulle Part
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070307685 (2070307689)
Publish date: May 1st 2005
Publisher: Gallimard Education
Edition language: French
Series: The Changeling Saga (#1)
This is one of Zelazny's openly comic efforts, poking some fun at fantasy novel cliches but also showing a number of more serious themes that will be familiar to readers who have read Zelazny more widely than just the Amber series. For example, opposites seperated and in tension (magic and technolog...
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