"Card has exceeded his own high standards in Seventh Son." - Anne McCaffrey
"This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren... and promises to be a story of deep delight." - Publishers Weekly
Come fall in love with a magical America that might have been...
Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who helped settle a continent and beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate frontier America where folk magic works, and colored the entire history of the colonies. It is into this world, amid the deep wood where the Red Man still holds sway, that a very special child is born...
"There is something deeply heart-wrenching about an America come true, even if it is only a dream, a fantasy novel. The first volume of The Tales of Alvin Maker is sharp and clean bracing. May its Maker grow." - Washington Post Book World
"Card brings to building this world and his large cast of well-wrought characters formidable scholarship in history, religion, and folklore. He also brings to it his maturing command of the English language. ...we are talking about the most important work of American fantasy since Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogy." - Chicago Sun-Times