Foiling the Dragon - Couverture souple

Price, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0439013984 ISBN 13 : 9780439013987

Editeur : Scholastic Point, 2000

Synopsis

Paul thinks he's a pretty good poet, unlike almost everybody else. So he's not that surprised when an exotic girl picks him up a poetry reading and seems to think he's a genius. But he's really quite cross when he finds out that he has been kidnapped for a poetry-obsessed dragon-king.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Paul loves beautiful girls and he loves poetry. He's a pub poet — courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell's Angels in the Hailstone Inn.

So when Zione, a beautiful black girl — and a real head-turner — appears in his audience at the Old Crown, Paul is well pleased. When she asks him to go outside with her, he doesn't hesitate.

When they're alone, in the darkness of the pub's yard, Zione calls up green fire and, for Paul, everything goes away...

He wakes up in a strange bed, not knowing where he is — which, for him, is nothing new. Then the luke-warm hot-water bottle nips him. It's a dragon. A small dragon, but still a dragon.

It turns out, Zione is a sorceress. The sorceress of Dragonsheim. Where Paul now is.

Paul cheers up when he finds that poets are far more respected in Dragonsheim than in his own world. Everyone is glad to see him — and keen for him to meet the biggest poetry lover of all. A very big poetry lover who has devoured most of the Oxford Book of Poets. In the most literal possible sense.

When Paul performs for this poetry-lover, he finds his work examined and criticised as never before. When this critic rips you apart, you stay ripped. It's extreme lit-crit.

Can Paul's ego survive it?

Can he survive it? And get back to his beloved lost world of pubs, pints and crisps?

A light-hearted fantasy of poets, sorceresses, dragons — and wrapping paper.

Biographie de l'auteur

When I was first commissioned to write a fantasy story, I asked my younger brother what he wanted from such a story. He replied, "Dragons."

I was doing the occasional 'day in schools' with a group of 'pub poets' at the time, so a poet found his way into the story too.

Susan Price is the acclaimed author of over 60 books. She won the Carnegie Medal for The Ghost Drum, and the Guardian prize for The Sterkarm Handshake.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scholastic Point
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0439013984
• ISBN 13: 9780439013987
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible