The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson

"...lambent with Earthpower made tangible and lovely-and mortal, Sunder himself had shared her numinous glow." (p.94)

"Now that she could observe him more precisely, however, she saw that he had not exhausted his life. In fact, he possessed an astonishing resilience, in spite of his inanition. He was sustained by---
New surprise rocked her back onto her heels.
---by Earthpower." (p.94)

"The sight of it seemed to crawl over her skin like a rush of formication. The eerie kinesthesia of her health-sense was so intense that she could hardly restrain her impulse to slap at the squirming sensation." (p.97)

The "Chronicles" are back. After twenty years, Thomas Covenant, though long dead, returns to rescue "The Land" once more. Well, maybe his spirit, anyway. All the dramatic overwriting of the first two series has re-emerged in the return.

Stephen Donaldson brings us 532 more pages of the wild allegorical ride of Thomas Covenant and his battle with 'Despair.' And he promises two more volumes in this extended trilogy, to be completed in due course, perhaps a dozen more years in the future..