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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr.
By the time of the 32nd Century, the atomic flame deluge was over, the earth was dead, all knowlege was gone. In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearths a fragile link to 20th-century civilization. A handwritten document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz that read: pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels - bring home for Emma.
ISBN: 155643
Publication Date: 7/1972
Pages: 278
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Fascinating, futuristic novel depicting the rebirth of humanity and society after the earth's devastation. The Library Journal calls it "exciting, imaginative," and "unconditionally recommended."
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Good book about the continuation and protection of knowledge in a post-apocalyptic world.Leibowitz is an engineer that died in a nuclear holocaust and is up for sainthood from a medieval-like abbey of a Catholic church.

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