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The centaur's wife
- Title
- The centaur's wife / Amanda Leduc.
- Author
- Leduc, Amanda
- Publication
- Toronto : Random House Canada, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-6040 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 311 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Amanda Leduc's brilliant, genre-bending and apocalyptic novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived. But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as Brendan and the other survivors, led by a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast, struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting. At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6040
- ISBN
- 9780735272859
- 0735272859
- OCLC
- 1155055576
- Author
- Leduc, Amanda, author.
- Title
- The centaur's wife / Amanda Leduc.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Random House Canada, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Leduc, Amanda. Centaur's wife. Toronto : Random House Canada, 2021 0735272867 9780735272866 (OCoLC)1155055544
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6040