Night Watch (2002) Terry Pratchett (Author)
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This is the 28th installment in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, whose trademark screwball comedy conceals a concern with larger issues of power, politics, religion, and morality. In this book, Sam Vimes, the alcoholic watchman readers first met in Guards! Guards!, has become a fabulously wealthy nobleman, about to become a father. But on what should have been the happiest day of his life, he is sent back in time, where he encounters himself as a green youth. There's another catch: the man who was a prime influence on the life of the younger Sam has been accidentally killed. So Old Sam takes on the task of mentoring his younger self.
MAIN CHARACTERS :
Sam Vimes, Police Officer, Time Traveler, Nobleman (Duke of Ankh), Lawn, Doctor, Carcer, Criminal, Lord Havelock Vetinari, Leader (elected despot of Ankh-Morpork)
GENRE :
Fantasy fiction
SUB GENRE :
Humor, Political
SETTING(S) :
Ankh-Morpork, Fictional City, Discworld, Planet--Imaginary, Fictional City, Planet--Imaginary
SUBJECT :
Fantasy, Humor, Magic, Politics, Time travel
TIME PERIOD :
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Gale Document Number: GALE|M1300117847
Gale Database: What Do I Read Next?, 2010
SOURCE CITATION : "Night Watch." 2010. Books & Authors Gale. Gale Internal User. 2 Sep 2010 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>
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