| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780061054891 | | Publisher: Harper Prism | | Publish Date: 10/1/1995 | | Buy.com Sku: 30005027 | | Item#: R4WXML | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.5H x 4.25L x 1T |
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| | | This 13th novel set in Discworld tells the story of Death's granddaughter, who inherited the job and grew to enjoy it. Amd of Imp the Bard, who strove to make his fortune in a rock band, and who was so unlucky that all his dreams came true.
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The Discworld learns to rock 'n' roll in the 15th installment of the humorous fantasy series. Harpist Imp y Celyn (or, as he's called later, Buddy Holly) gets a guitar from a mysterious shop, and invents an entirely new type of music: Music With Rocks In It. Soon, the phenomenon sweeps the city of Ankh-Morpork, and everyone wants to play such great tunes as "Good Gracious Miss Polly" and "Pathway to Paradise." But what terrible price will Buddy and his band have to pay for their unearthly music? That all depends on Susan Sto Helit, a schoolgirl who's just discovered that she's Death's granddaughter (by adoption) and is required to fill in for her dear old granddad, who's gone AWOL again.
| PraiseKirkus
"This one, unfailingly amusing and sometimes hysterically funny, is recommended for anyone with the slightest trace of a sense of humor." 12/15/1994 |
| Author Bio| Terry Pratchett | | Terry Pratchett's published his first story when he was only 13 years old. "The Hades Business" originally appeared in a school magazine and, two years later, it was re-published in Science Fantasy magazine, making him a professional writer at the age of 15. His first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, was published in 1971 and followed the adventures of a society of microscopic people living in, well, a carpet. Essentially, a children's novel in the vein of John Peterson's THE LITTLES (who, incidentally, would be giants compared to Pratchett's people) and the like, the novel paved the way for Pratchett's style of "grounded" fantasy. Many of his novels are feature fairly traditional fantasy elements in fairly traditional fantasy settings, but almost all of these settings are microcosms of the "real" world--in the case of the Discworld series, for example, all the action takes place on a flat planet that sits atop the backs of four immense elephants who, in turn, ride on the shell of an enormous turtle travelling through space. The Discworld books, which form the bulk of Pratchett's literary work and are his most well-known titles, initially began as extremely clever, and very funny, parodies of fantasy fiction and have slowly morphed into being much more. His 1989 novel, PYRAMIDS, was awarded the British Science Fiction Award and a collaboration with Neil Gaiman, GOOD OMENS, was nominated for the 1991 World Fantasy Award. A prolific author, Pratchett is a consistent best seller in England, where, according to some estimates, his fiction accounts for a little over 1% of ALL books sold in any given year. |
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