From Avi, the 2003 Newbery Award-winning author of Crispin: The Cross of Lead, comes the story of Thorston, an alchemist who works to concoct a potion that will enable him to live forever--and keep dying and rising from the dead as a result.From Avi, the 2003 Newbery Award-winning author of Crispin: The Cross of Lead, comes the story of Thorston, an alchemist who works to concoct a potion that will enable him to live forever--and keep dying and rising from the dead as a result.