Santa Olivia
Full Description
Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth./ / / / Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider. ... more
Audio and Video
- Category:
- FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 5/29/2009
- Price:
- $13.99/$15.50
- ISBN:
- 9780446198172
- Pages:
- 352
- Size:
- 5-1/4" x 8"
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