# Engine Summer

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- Book: [Engine Summer](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crowley/engine-summer) ([Engine Summer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crowley/engine-summer.md))
- Authors: [John Crowley](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crowley)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7508-281-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-01-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ...