The Last Dark
Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in...
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Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power--and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World’s End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399159206 (0399159207)
Publish date: October 15th 2013
Publisher: Putnam
Pages no: 557
Edition language: English
Series: Thomas Covenant Series 0 (#10)
An excellent conclusion to a great adventure
More dithering, agonizing and metaconflict, but finally an ending, and a not wholly unsatisfying one at that. Rating rounded up out of sheer satisfaction at having finally finished this series begun in my early teens, more than thirty years ago.
In hindsight one can see the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant building up to the Götterdämmerung that is The Last Dark.† In the first Chronicle, Thomas Covenant, an outcast leper in our world, is translated to the Land. There one’s physical and mental health are tangible, and all is threatened by Lord ...
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