Boneland - Couverture souple

Garner, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007463251 ISBN 13 : 9780007463251

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Press for Boneland :

"From Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, adults have been enthusiastically been reading children's books over recent years. Garner predates the cross over phenomenon by decades, but he has never been just a children's writer: he s far richer, odder and deeper than that."

--The Guardian

Professor Colin Whisterfield is a brilliant astrophysicist. He believes the stars are telling him a story. He reads them like he reads ancient myths and Jungian psychology. Often he hears his sister's voice calling to him from the heavens. Narrator Robert Powell delivers Garner's poetic prose with the conviction and understanding that come from being a longtime collaborator with the author. Powell's Lancashire accent is especially good in the scenes of dialogue between Colin and his psychiatrist, Meg, who is determined to get to the bottom of Colin's fascination with Celtic magic. In Garner's Tolkienesque first novels, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and The Moon of Gomrath (1963), 12-year-old twins Colin and Susan were whisked into a world of fierce wizards and dwarves. This philosophical finale to the Weirdstone trilogy, featuring the adult Colin, is very much worth the fifty-year wait. -- Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award --AudioFile

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, 'Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies. . .Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can't remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve, if he wants to find his sister. And the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, and there will be only winter, wanderers and moon. . .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007463251
• ISBN 13: 9780007463251
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160