Grass - Hardcover

Tepper, Sheri S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385260121 ISBN 13: 9780385260121

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

Sent to the land of Grass to find out how that planet has escaped the deadly plague that threatens the rest of the galaxy, a strong-willed woman makes some unexpected--and frightening--discoveries

About this title

Book Description:

A classic work of science fiction from a master storyteller

From the Back Cover:

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with numberless wind-whipped oceans of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. 'Grass' is a major work of fiction from Sheri S. Tepper.

'An incurable plague has spread to all inhabited planets but one. No one knows why the prairie-world of Grass is exempt. The imperial power of Earth, a Mormon-like religion called Sanctity, despatches the Yrarier family to snoop around. They are horsey types; the rulers of Grass are understood to hunt. And so they do, but not for foxes, and not on horseback. The true nature of things – the hunters, the hunted, and the fields over which they fly – resists unravelling. But slowly, horribly, deliciously, the truth falls out.'
WASHINGTON POST

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385260121
• ISBN 13: 9780385260121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426