A canticle for Leibowitz a novel
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Broth...
Main Author: | Miller, Walter M., 1923- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Philadelphia :
Lippincott,
c1959.
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Summary: |
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. --From amazon.com |
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Physical Description: |
320 p. ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: |
0397005741 (pbk.) : 9780397005741 (pbk.) |
Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |