The Power That Preserves: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
Author: Stephen Donaldson
 
Cursed by a terrible disease, Thomas Covenant is an outcast in our world: shunned by his neighbours, pushed by lonliness to the edges of madness.
Suddenly he is transported to a mysterious and beautiful new world - The Land - where gentle people work magic with wood and stone, and the very earth and air bring healing. Covenant is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour: his maimed hand and white-gold wedding ring mark him as a figure of power and sorcery, with a wild magice powerful against evil.
But Covenant does not believe that the Land is real, and thus he becomes the unwilling tool of the enemy who seeks to destroy it: Lord Foul the Despiser.
Three times, in their hour of greatest need, the peoples of the Land will summon him to their aid. Three times, as their reluctant leader, he will fail them.
Only at the end, as a victorious Lord Foul prepares to devastate the Land and enslave its people forever, will Thomas Covenant call on the wild magic he alone can wield - for a last, epic battle with the forces of evil . . .
 
FONTANA BOOKS 3rd IMPRESSION MARCH 1979
ISBN: 0006152473