Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers/Diggers/Wings

Terry Pratchett

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Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers/Diggers/Wings

Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers/Diggers/Wings

Terry Pratchett

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From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series comes a comic and insightful trilogy about a race of four-inch-high heroes trying to make sense of a human-size world.

In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember--or even believe in--life beyond the Store walls.

Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed.

Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think -- and to think BIG.

Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett's engaging trilogy traces the nomes' flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.

Praise for the Bromeliad trilogy: "Witty, funny, wise, and altogether delightful."--Locus Magazine

Meet more of Sir Terry Pratchett's tiny-but-fierce heroes in the Discworld novel The Wee Free Men!

Critical Reviews

"Terry Pratchett has a marvelously comic intelligence: literate, nimble, sparkling with microcosmic--and cosmic--drollery. He's created a wild adventure, a fable, a fantasy, an elegant satire." - Lloyd Alexander
"Witty, funny, wise and altogether delightful." - Locus
"A delicious, rewarding, wry and antic fable." --Harlan Ellison "A rollicking good story." - Kirkus Reviews
"Fascinating and funny." - The Horn Book
"This is a wry somewhat tongue-in-cheek fantasy...which unhesitatingly lampoons the ingrained habits and complacent attitudes found in any society. ... Lively fantasy adventure." - ALA Booklist
"Terry Pratchett has created a wild adventure, a fable, a fantasy, an elegant satire." - Lloyd Alexander - Lloyd Alexander
"Pratchett gives his cast plenty of personality and fuels the plot with nonstop comedy." - Kirkus Reviews
"A wry tongue-in-cheek fantasy...which unhesitatingly lampoons the ingrained habits and complacent attitudes found in any society." - ALA Booklist

Publishing Information

Publisher: Clarion Books
Pub date: 2003-09-30
Length: 502 pages

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