Romanen "Barabbas" fick stort genomslag när den utkom 1950 och sägs vara avgörande för att Pär Lagerkvist året efter tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur. Till denna nyutgivning har KG Hammar skrivit förordet."Barabbas" handlar om rövaren som döms till döden, men som benådas då Jesus från Nasaret ko
City of Baraboo
✍ Scribed by Barry B. Longyear
- Publisher
- iUniverse;Berkley Books
- Year
- 1982;1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Edition
- Berkley ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The Last Show on Earth finds its survival by taking to the stars and playing the worlds of the near galaxy, becoming the greatest show off Earth."What Barry has done . . . is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality."Spider Robinson
Review
"...take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality." -- Spider Robinson
About the Author
Hugo, Nebula and Campbell Award winner, Barry Longyear is author of the acclaimed Enemy Mine, which was made into a motion picture by Fox. Recent works include The Enemy Papers and Yesterday's Tomorrow. Having completed training as a PI, the current work is a mystery titled The Hangman's Son. Longyear lives with his wife Jean in New Sharon, Maine.
Library : Science Fiction
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780595121205
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