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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. Allknowledge 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 reads: pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels-bring home for Emma. — "An extrodi...  more »
ISBN: 225845
Publication Date: 8/1/1976
Pages: 313
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
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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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