{"product_id":"9780312873646","title":"Return to the Whorl : The Final Volume of 'The Book of the Short Sun'","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eReturn to the Whorl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Gene Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eReturn to the Whorl\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume, after\u003ci\u003e On Blue's Waters \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e In Green's Jungles\u003c\/i\u003e, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. \u003ci\u003eReturn to the Whorl\u003c\/i\u003e brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astonishing literary brilliance.” —\u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sentence by sentence, Wolfe is as fine a writer as science fiction has produced. He demands a lot from his readers. It is worth meeting him more than halfway.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312873646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40664046797006,"sku":"9780312873646","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6656d271-415a-4e8e-a06a-343b8b540a26.jpg?v=1639627392","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312873646","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}