{"product_id":"9781250237446","title":"The Wizard Knight : (Comprising The Knight and The Wizard) by Gene Wolfe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.\" -Neil Gaiman on \u003ci\u003eThe Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel in two volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard Knight\u003c\/i\u003e is in the rare company of works of fantasy like \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King,\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Earthsea,\u003c\/i\u003e that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero-a true knight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wolfe's version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous.\" -Tad Williams on \u003ci\u003eThe Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new introduction by Yves Meynard, acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Knights.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297558311285,"sku":"9781250237446","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781250237446.jpg?v=1762780922","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781250237446","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}