The Innkeeper's Song
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Amazon.com Review
In this Locus Award-winning novel, young Tikat enters a shadow world of magic and mystery as he searches for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed. It's a wild ride that sets him on the trail of three cloaked women who are on a mission of their own.
"A beautifully written tale of love and loss, set in a world of hard-edged magic." --The New York Times Book Review
" A wonderfully astonishing novel... a tour de force." --Washington Post Book World --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Three powerful women (each with her own secret past), a stable boy, a weaver's son, and an innkeeper set in motion a series of events that brings each of them face to face with the forces of magic and the workings of fate. Beagle ( The Last Unicorn , LJ 5/15/68; The Folk of the Air , Ballantine, 1987) uses many voices to tell this tale of love and death and what lies beyond both. A finely crafted piece as well as a rich, evocative fantasy, this novel should have broad appeal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Series
1 primary book2 released booksInnkeeper's World is a 2-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1993 with contributions by Peter S. Beagle.
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Peter S. Beagle is one of my favorite authors of all time. His prose is just a warm blanket that makes me feel good, which is something I've desperately needed over this transition to the new year. I know he has cited this novel in particular as his favorite, and it has an epicness to it that makes it worthy of that claim. That said, I wonder if he would write it differently today as attitudes towards gender and expression have shifted so dramatically since 1993. There's a lot of playing with gender in this book, and I think I kept waiting for it to be more of an exploration of a theme rather than the sort of Shakespearean deception it ends up as. The actual plot of the band of heroes who meet in an inn, but then just stay there, however, is really great, and as always Beagle's writing comforts me in my heart of hearts.
