Tales of Alvin Maker · Book 3
Prentice Alvin
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN-13
- 9781433202377
- Type
- novel
About this book
Prentice Alvin, published in 1989, is the shortest of the first three novels at 200 pages, continuing Alvin's bildungsroman as he apprentices his way toward the builder he's meant to become.
Its place in Tales of Alvin Maker
Prentice Alvin is book 3 in the Tales of Alvin Maker series. It follows Red Prophet. It is followed by Alvin Journeyman. 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 9781433202377