The long awaited conclusion to the National Book Award-winning "The Book of The Dun Cow" Trilogy, from Walter Wangerin, Jr.Praise for The Book of The Dun Cow"Belongson the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Lord of theRings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the warbetween good and evil." -Los Angeles TimesPraise for "The Second Book of The Dun Cow: Lamentations""[A] profoundly imagined and beautifully stylized fable of the immemorial war between good and evil." -The New York TimesPertelote,widow of Chauntecleer the Golden Rooster, takes up his mantle as leaderof the Animals as they seek safety from the great evil of the Wyrm andhis children. Two other groups of Creatures are making their ownjourneys through the perilous land: Eurus the merciless yellow-eyed Wolfand his pack, and the sociable pair, Wachanga the Cream-Colored Wolfand her friend Kangi Sapa, the Raven. When Pertelote meets Wachanga andKangi, she finds much-needed allies in her travels. Allies that becomeall the more valuable after cruel Eurus begins following the wearyAnimals with a murderous intent.When the Creatures converge on ahidden crater high in the mountains, they make a monumental discoverythat may finally mean an end to their tribulations.The epicjourney begun in "The Book of the Dun Cow" reaches its powerfulconclusion in "The Third Book of the Dun Cow: Peace at the Last,"proving the sacrifices of Chauntecleer and the Animals were not in vain.