Wolfe PIRATE FREEDOM

Gene Wolfe PIRATE FREEDOM. I just read this short novel and enjoyed it completely. Wolfe has the ability to seem like a different writer for each book. For this first person story, he comes off as a priest giving his fantastic confession knowing that the reader will never believe it. It is a tale of fancifull time-travel where a young novitiate is transported back to the days of Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Chris reluctantly becomes a pirate, falls in love, and has more excitement that Walter Mitty ever hoped for. This book is a kinder-gentler-Wolfe that readers of the '*Sun' books will not recognize. This book reads lightning fast. You will not stop to ponder how or why Chris is dropped into another world, for you will be having so much fun just following the story. This novel can be placed next to one of Wolfe's other light fantasies: PANDORA. Recommended. OPTCS 88698