The Wizard Knight: (Comprising the Knight and the Wizard) -- Gene Wolfe

<p><b>"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book is] important and wonderful." --Neil Gaiman on <i>The Knight</i> <p/>A novel in two volumes, <i>The Wizard Knight</i> is in the rare company of works of fantasy like <i>The Once and Future King, </i> or <i>The Wizard of Earthsea, </i> that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time.</b> <p/>A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero--a true knight. <p/>Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead... <p/>" Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy." --<i>The Washington Post</i> on <i>The Knight</i> <p/>"Wolfe's version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous." --Tad Williams on <i>The Knight</i> <p/>With a new introduction by Yves Meynard, acclaimed author of <i>The Book of Knights.</i></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Gene Wolfe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Tor Books<br><b>Published:</b> 08/11/2020<br><b>Pages:</b> 912<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback