Tales of Alvin Maker · Book 4
Alvin Journeyman
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 381
- ISBN-13
- 9780812509236
- Type
- novel
About this book
A six-year gap separates Prentice Alvin from Alvin Journeyman, published in 1995 as the longest book in the series to that point at 381 pages, carrying Alvin further into adulthood and the costs his gift exacts on the people around him.
Its place in Tales of Alvin Maker
Alvin Journeyman is book 4 in the Tales of Alvin Maker series. It follows Prentice Alvin. It is followed by Heartfire. See the full Tales of Alvin Maker reading order.
Set in an alternate frontier America where folk magic genuinely works, the Tales of Alvin Maker follows Alvin, a seventh son of a seventh son born with the rare gift of 'making' -- an intuitive power to shape and heal matter itself -- who is marked from birth as the target of an implacable supernatural enemy, the Unmaker, that wants him dead before he can grow into his full power. Card reimagines the early 19th-century United States (called here by different names, with historical figures appearing in altered…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812509236