The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780575116085
Publish date: September 29th 2011
Publisher: Gateway
Pages no: 147
Edition language: English
Series: The Books of the True Game: Mavin Manyshaped (#1)
Early Tepper!This has been kicking around under my ownership for a while, and I decided to read it now because the title character was mentioned, in passing, in the last Patricia McKillip book I read (Od Magic). This made me go, "Huh, is Mavin a mythological character, not just a fictional character...
Song of Mavin contains the kernels of everything I love about Tepper's work. There's the character herself; a little dreamy but becoming determined and practical, coming into her strength by developing self-reliance and thinking far outside tradition. The threads of horror running through it, and t...