Prentice Alvin

Prentice Alvin

Infobox Book
name = Prentice Alvin
title_orig =
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
author = Orson Scott Card
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series = The Tales of Alvin Maker
genre = Fantasy
publisher = Tor Books
release_date = 1989
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 342 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-312-93141-7
preceded_by = Red Prophet
followed_by = Alvin Journeyman

"Prentice Alvin" (1989) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the third book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son. "Prentice Alvin" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1989 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1990.

Plot summary

After being released from his time with Ta-Kumsaw, an Indian leader who taught Alvin the ways of Indian people, the young boy sets out to start his apprenticeship as a Smith in the town where he was born.

While there he meets a young half-black boy by the name of Arthur Stuart, the son of a slave and a slave-owner who has been adopted by the owners of the local guesthouse.

Another new friend comes in the form of Miss Peggy Larner, who he later discovers to be the "torch" who helped him to be born so many years ago, and with whom he has been strangely linked since that day.

Eventually, Alvin is forced into helping Arthur to escape some slave-hunters, something that requires him to slightly change Arthur's DNA enough to prevent the hunters' knacks from identifying the runaway child.Alvin also creates a plow of living gold, which is bestowed with magical properties, as his journeyman piece to release himself from his apprenticeship as a Smith (and also as a Maker).

The story ends with Alvin and Arthur leaving the town and returning to Alvin's home in the west.

ee also

*List of works by Orson Scott Card
*Orson Scott Card

External links

* [http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/prentice.shtml About the novel "Prentice Alvin" from Card's website]


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