Alan Garner

Gebundenes Buch

Treacle Walker

Beschreibung

"An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds' eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination. Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves."--

Autor

Alan Garner is an English novelist, born in Cheshire in 1934. His childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His book The Owl Service won the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a TV series. It established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of distinction. His novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the OBE in for his services to literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9781668025512
• ISBN-10: 1668025515
• Artikelnr.: 67614509

Rezensionen

'Treacle Walker is a small miracle' New Statesman Best Books of 2021

'Remarkable ... there's mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every one of these 150 pages.' Daily Telegraph

'Spare and allusive ... luminous and understated. It's about seeing and healing; any more by way of summary would be useless' Rowan Williams, New Statesman

'It's a strange, austere, uncompromising book, leagues ahead of anything else I've read this year' Peter Thonemann, TLS

'This seemingly brief tale is a hypnotic wonder, blurring the boundaries of time and spirit... A

glorious wonder in its own right. Here is real magic between hard covers' Erica Wagner, New Statesman

'Treacle Walker is a circular narrative, made of smaller interlocking circles, with actions and whole paragraphs repeating: in its end is its beginning. This late fiction also works the seam opened up in Garner's very first novel, inspired by the story handed down to his grandfather about enchanted sleepers under Alderley Edge ... Playful, moving and wholly remarkable work ... There's a life's work inside this little book' Guardian

'Sparse yet masterful... This is a mesmerising folktale where every word counts' Literary Review

'Garner has always suggested that there is essentially just one story, and this novel ... contains all the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of his best work ... cramming in ... more ideas and imagination than most authors manage in their whole careers' Observer

'Treacle Walker is a small miracle' New Statesman Best Books of 2021

'Remarkable ... there's mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every one of these 150 pages.' Daily Telegraph

'Spare and allusive ... luminous and understated. It's about seeing and healing; any more by way of summary would be useless' Rowan Williams, New Statesman

'It's a strange, austere, uncompromising book, leagues ahead of anything else I've read this year' Peter Thonemann, TLS

'This seemingly brief tale is a hypnotic wonder, blurring the boundaries of time and spirit... A glorious wonder in its own right. Here is real magic between hard covers' Erica Wagner, New Statesman

'Treacle Walker is a circular narrative,

made of smaller interlocking circles, with actions and whole paragraphs repeating: in its end is its beginning. This late fiction also works the seam opened up in Garner's very first novel, inspired by the story handed down to his grandfather about enchanted sleepers under Alderley Edge ... Playful, moving and wholly remarkable work ... There's a life's work inside this little book' Guardian

'Sparse yet masterful... This is a mesmerising folktale where every word counts' Literary Review

'Garner has always suggested that there is essentially just one story, and this novel ... contains all the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of his best work ... cramming in ... more ideas and imagination than most authors manage in their whole careers' Observer