The Fetching of Spring - Couverture souple

Down, Reg

 
9781466266193: The Fetching of Spring
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1466266198 ISBN 13 : 9781466266193
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

The Golden Bird has been stolen (apparently) and Tik-Tak is sent to fetch it. The naive and dreamy youth rides southwards (it’s warmer in that direction), gets kicked out of two kingdoms, meets Erce-Ma, loses his hopeless steed, gains a (much) better one, stumbles into the Undwelling and its townships, descends into Akkman’s Dwell, rescues the bird (and other abductees), returns (still not fully awake) with the bird, refuses the hand of the Princess (what!), becomes a successful entrepreneur, is jailed > is released > then steals the bird (wrong order, I know, but that’s the truth), returns to Spring, returns to Tansa, gets familied, assumes the kingship and unites the Three Kingdoms (well, it’s a work in progress).

The Fetching of Spring, written with a (sometimes) humorous nod to the fairy tale, has a deadly serious subtext. It is an awakening tale, the story all of us are in whether we like it or not. Setting out from the Kingdom of the Golden Bird, our (inordinately) nascent hero descends via the earthly into contemporary sub-earthly realms. The story (and it is a story in the sense of storytelling) ends with worn-shoe idealism and a peppering of satire to spice things up.

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À propos de l'auteur

Reg Down is a teacher, artist, eurythmist and (sometime) puppeteer-storyteller. He is the author of twenty-three titles, including Leaving Room for the Angels: eurythmy and the art of teaching, Color and Gesture: the inner life of color, The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly series and many further children’s titles. Raised in Canada, Africa and Europe he currently lives in Sacramento, California.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1466266198
ISBN 13 
9781466266193
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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