Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter Miller

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SPECTRA
01 April 2007

Christian hymnals; Hugo Award

In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.

In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the

mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.

By: Walter Miller
Imprint: SPECTRA
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New Bantam ed
Dimensions: Height: 176mm, Width: 105mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 187g
ISBN: 9780553273816
ISBN 10: 0553273817
Pages: 313
Publication Date: 01 April 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Walter M. Miller, Jr. grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote <b>A Canticle for Leibowitz</b>. The sequel, <b>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</b>, followed after nearly forty years.

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