The long awaited conclusion to the National Book Award-winning THE BOOK
OF THE DUN COW trilogy, from Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Pertelote, widow of Chauntecleer the Golden Rooster, takes up his mantle
as leader of the Animals as they seek safety from the great evil of the
Wyrm and his children. Desperate to keep safe those she's responsible
for, Pertelote is travelling blindly, suffering the purposeless,
undirected, but insistent journey as the new leader.
Two other groups of Creatures are making their own journeys through the
perilous land: Eurus the merciless yellow-eyed Wolf and his pack, and
the sociable pair Wachanga the Cream-Colored Wolf and her friend Kangi
Sapa, the Raven. When Pertelote and her band of Animals meet Wachanga
and Kangi, she finds much-needed allies in her travels. Allies that
become all the more valuable after cruel Eurus begins following the
weary Animals with a murderous intent.
When the disparate bands of Creatures converge on a hidden crater high
in the dangerous mountains, they make a monumental discovery that may
finally mean an end to their trials and tribulations.
The epic journey begun in THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW reaches its powerful
conclusion in THE THIRD BOOK OF THE DUN COW: PEACE AT THE LAST, proving
the sacrifices of Chauntecleer and the Animals were not in vain.
Praise for THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW: "Far and away the most literate and
intelligent story of the year ... Mr. Wangerin's allegorical fantasy
about the age-old struggle between good and evil produces a resonance;
it is a taut string plucked that reverberates in memory" --New York
Times
"Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Lord of
the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war
between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the
imagination." --Los Angeles Times
Praise for THE SECOND BOOK OF THE DUN COW: LAMENTATIONS
"[A] profoundly imagined and beautifully stylized fable of the
immemorial war between good and evil."--The New York Times
