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| Author(s) | Piers Anthony |
| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Avon Books |
| Publication date | October 1991 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 338 pp (paperback 1st printing) |
| ISBN | 0-380-75948-9 |
| OCLC Number | 24475560 |
| Preceded by | Isle of View |
| Followed by | The Color of Her Panties |
Question Quest is the fourteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Blurb[]
Lacuna has a question which requires her to go to Hell in a hand basket to get an answer from Humfrey.
Plot[]
The book begins with Lacuna, one of the mischievous Castle Zombie twins, seeking a way to fix her "dull" life. To do so she comes to ask Grey, Ivy's betrothed and pro-tem magician of knowledge, for the answer. However, Grey doesn't want to answer her question because he knows that something terrible will come of it. Lacuna decides to make a deal that even Grey can't refuse, a way to outwit Com-Pewter. Lacuna plans to use her ability to change prints and write new ones to help Grey. Seeing no other choice, Grey decides to help her, but he realizes that he can't fathom what the book of knowledge is trying to say. Therefore, he sends her to the anteroom of hell to talk to Magician Humfrey. When Lacuna arrives to the anteroom, she finds Humfrey sleeping. After waking Humfrey up, she found out that he is waiting to talk to the Demon X(A/N)th to free his wife Rose, and has been waiting for many years. Humfrey tells her to write down his life story (and most of Xanth's history in the process), on the walls, in order to force X(A/N)th to arrive; Humfrey states that if she writes his entire life history and he continues it into the future without the Demon interupting, he will gain considerable influence over that future, so by writing his history he forces the Demon to arrive before, or as, the story concludes. It turns out that Humfrey has five wives. Humfrey manages to save his wives from the pits of hell (sort of) and Lacuna changes her life.
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Lacuna has a question which requires her to go to Hell in a hand basket to get an answer from Humfrey.
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