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Peace | Gene Wolfe
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Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time. Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe's first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of The New Sun.
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Peace | Gene Wolfe
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Rest In Peace 📚

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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“I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.”

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I've read 8 novels by Gene Wolfe and EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. had an #unreliablenarrator Check out what Neil Gaiman has to say about Wolfe's writing above.

I got into Wolfe because Gaiman sung his praises, and the novel Peace is the reason the term #bookhangover was invented. I didn't know who I was when I finished, much less what exactly had happened. #MayBookFlowers

saresmoore I can't decide if this makes me want to drop everything and read this book immediately or never, ever touch it. 8y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @saresmoore I suppose I can't spoil anything if I don't actually know: An old man recalls his childhood in a sleepy midwestern town. But there are too many rooms in his house and no one else is around and maybe he's dead? Maybe he's a murderer? Maybe his dreams reshape reality? I will say the writing is absolutely beautiful. Whether science fiction or horror, all his books are dreamlike and lovely as long as you don't worry about answers. 8y
saresmoore Well, that sounds amazing. Anyway, as The Doctor says, "I try never to understand. It's called having an open mind." 8y
RealLifeReading Ok that sounds fantastic! 8y
PirateJenny Sounds great. I do love the Wolfe I've read but this one slipped past my radar. 8y
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