The Stone Book Quartet [electronic resource]
Garner, Alan2013
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A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester. Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans: they all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that has somehow, somewhere been lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore that lost world in simple, searching prose.
Main title:
The Stone Book Quartet [electronic resource] / Alan Garner
Author:
Garner, Alan, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
The Stone Book Quartet
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, 'The Owl Service' brought Alan Garner to everyone's attention. It won two important literary prizes – The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal – and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.
ISBN:
9780007380121
Language:
English
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BRN:
2795223
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