Tales of Alvin Maker · Book 5
Heartfire
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9781574534887
- Type
- novel
About this book
Heartfire followed in 1998, three years after Alvin Journeyman, continuing the series' meditation on slavery and frontier expansion refracted through Alvin's growing power. It runs 336 pages.
Its place in Tales of Alvin Maker
Heartfire is book 5 in the Tales of Alvin Maker series. It follows Alvin Journeyman. It is followed by The Crystal City. 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 9781574534887