Description: Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny | Easton Press (1996) | Leather Bound Text 1970 ***First Thus Edition*** Fantasy Prince Corwin must trust his siblings Random and Deirdre to lead him into the underwater city of Renma--Amber's mirror image. There, Corwin walks the dangerous magical Pattern to restore his memory and full power as a Prince of Amber. Nine Princes in Amber begins realistically enough with an accident victim in a hospital bed, but we soon realize that the patient is keenly suspicious of his attendants and displays unusual powers of strength, martial skills, and self-healing. The hero experiences the loss of memory that is frequently encountered in fantasy, but he displays an uncanny ability to track down those who might be able to help him recover his past and to conceal his condition in the process. His powers are not simply superhuman — they are magical. He is, in fact, a Prince of Amber. Amber, we later discover, is the "one true world" and everything else, including the reality with which we readers are familiar, belongs to shadow. Zelazny plays off the reader's expectation that the fantasy world will be subordinate to the real world in which the reader lives. "Amber had always been and always would be, and every other city, everywhere, every other city that existed was but a reflection of the shadow of some phase of Amber." Nine Princes in Amber can be characterized as high fantasy, which offers a fully realized alternate reality, as opposed to low fantasy, in which the supernatural element enters the real world. Zelazny's novel exhibits some of the characteristics of high fantasy, heightened color, for instance, and sometimes heightened diction. Readers turn to high fantasy to experience brighter scenes and more intense emotional experiences. Virtually every high fantasy narrative offers at least one scene of mind-bending, sense-distorting drama such as the scene in which Corwin walks the Pattern, an experience enhanced by the knowledge that failure is death and only a Prince of Amber can walk the Pattern and live. There is more, of course, to Nine Princes in Amber, just as there is more to the Masterpieces of Fantasy, and more discussion of fantasy to come. Welcome to the other side of the mirror.
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, First Thus Edition
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Easton Press
Topic: Fantasy
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Character Family: Chronicles Of Amber
Year Printed: 1996
