Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin Jr.
Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin Jr.
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Book of the Dun Cow

Author: Walter Wangerin Jr.

Narrator: Walter Wangerin Jr.

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2007

Synopsis

Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth ... and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free.

About Walter Wangerin Jr.

Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today on the issues of faith and spirituality. Known for his bestselling The Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin’s writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books including The Book of God, Wangerin has won the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sørina

This unique book, written in 1978, is grisly, gritty, earthy, painful, and beautiful. I have never read anything like this book before. It is a creation of great courage. Wangerin has taken stark good and evil and played them out in an almost predictable manner, unafraid of arrangements that could b......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

For the full 5 stars listen to the Paul Michael audiobook. Great companion reading to The Canterbury Tales. Don’t miss the author’s note at the end.......more

Goodreads review by Rosie

A beast-fable, about good vs. evil. A cock named Chauntecleer is the ruler of the animals. Cosmic evil is embodied as Wyrm, who lives "sub terra," and whose son Cockatrice (a half-cock half-serpent) and his "children" (the basilisks) wage war against Chauntecleer's kingdom. Mundo Cani Dog ends up gi......more

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