Book description
MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted
couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern,
and was often the only one who could master Petiron's technically
accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth,
Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a
unique partnership.
But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son,
refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his
achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over
him at all times.
Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the
greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just
musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.
As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career
sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as
MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from
the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of
the dragons of Pern.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated
cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and
Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her
handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination,
particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the
Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own
design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Visit the author's website at www. annemccaffrey. net
