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Available
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Description
"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--
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Publication
Doubleday (2014), Hardcover, 384 pages
Pages
384
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Physical description
384 p.; 9.51 inches
Awards
Prometheus Award (Nominee — Novel — 2015)
Media reviews
Pratchett's unforgettable characters and lively story mirror the best, the worst, and the oddest bits of our own world, entertaining readers while skewering social and political foibles in a melting pot of humanity, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, vampires, and a werewolf or two.
If sometimes the mighty engine of Pratchett's prose skids a bit on the upslope – a tad didactic here, a little heavy-handed in its moralising there – we can forgive him. Not least because he remains one of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the
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LCC
PR6066.R34 R35
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ISBN
038553826X / 9780385538268