But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.

Lewis Robert E. With the second book of that series Fatal Revenant Donaldson again attained bestseller status when the book reached number 12 on the New York Times Bestseller List in October 2007. Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13 1947) is an American fantasy science fiction and mystery novelist most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant his ten-novel fantasy series.

In the United Kingdom he is usually called "Stephen Donaldson" (without the "R"). Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13 1947) is an American fantasy science fiction and mystery novelist most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant his ten-novel fantasy series.