Bearing an Hourglass -- Piers Anthony

<b>Like <i>On a Pale Horse, </i>this second, complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality is a richly imagined and always fascinating story. And again, Piers Anthony adds to his gripping plot a serious, though-provoking study of good and evil. <p/></b>When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. <p/>The other seemily all-powerful Incarnates of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps. While he had been distracted, he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good. <p/>In the end, armed with only the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Piers Anthony<br><b>Publisher:</b> Del Rey Books<br><b>Published:</b> 09/12/1985<br><b>Pages:</b> 384<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.42lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.94h x 4.19w x 1.04d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780345313157<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Piers Anthony</b>, sometimes called Pier Xanthony, is the pseudonym of a Mundane character who was born in England in 1934, came to America in 1940, was naturalized in 1958, and moved to Xanth in 1977. His first story was published in 1963, and his first novel, <i>Chthon, </i>in 1967. His