Name: Freddy's Book

Author: John Gardner
Year: 1980
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9780679721949
9781893996847
0679721940
1893996840
The bestselling story of a king's crusade to vanquish the Devil and to defeat the monster in each of us A visiting lecturer is lured to the remote, gothic mansion of an estranged professor and his only son, who is described as a monster. But soon, the visitor enters an enchanting new world when he begins reading the son's hidden manuscript. Part history, part myth, the story conjures a sixteenth-century Sweden in which good and evil clash for the ultimate prize. To attain the throne, the protagonist, Gustav Vasa, accepts the Devil's counsel, but to remain in power and rule justly, he must drive the Devil underground.
This sweeping, masterful tale transports us from the wasted mining hills of Dalarna to the frozen northern country of the Lapps'and into the very heart of the struggle over what it means to be human.
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