Peace

Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de forcé of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an em-bittered oíd man living out his last days in a small midwestem town, the novel reveáis a miraculous dimensión as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to oblitérate time and reshape reality, transcend-ing even death itself. Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace/i> ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time. Hailed as «one of the literary giants of SF» by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field’s highest honors, including the Nébula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe’s first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as Home Fires and The Book of the New Sun .