Anderson Kevin. J Clockwork Lives

<B><i>Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.</i></B><BR><BR>Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions in order to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious gift: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories—and ultimately her own.<BR> <BR> <i>Clockwork Lives</i> is a steampunk Canterbury Tales—and much more—that follows Marinda as she strives to change her life from a “mere sentence or two” to a true epic. <BR> <BR> Based on the world they previously introduced in <i>Clockwork Angels</i>, Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart take the graphic novel to new heights with this adaptation of the best-selling book<a> </a><i>Clockwork Lives</i>.