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A collection of Richard Kennedy's stories, including "The Porcelain Man," "Come Again In The Spring," and "Inside My Feet."
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From AudioFile
Like the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde, these eight original stories weave magical happenings with luminous strands of wisdom. Some readers of the book might find the pace too slow, but on tape the stories seem to come alive. The narrator's quiet voice, capturing the soft brogue of an Irishman or the ungrammatical conversation of simple peasants or the twang of a Western outlaw, never overpowers the story. As a bonus, Marcia Sewall's pastel drawing of "The Porcelain Man" enhances the cover of an enticing package. J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
From School Library Journal
Grade 4 Up The republication of these 14 stories and 2 narrative poems should attract the kinds of critical accolades and readers' attention which have been oddly absent from Kennedy's career to date. For make no mistake about it: these storiespublished individually from 1974 to 1981 and collected here for the first timeclearly establish him as a major author with a unique voice. While Kennedy's style speaks for itself, the source, the genesis, the climate in which each story was createdall have an eloquent spokesman in Kennedy himself, who introduces each story with a brief paragraph answering the inevitable question, ``Where do you get your ideas?'' As individual as its source, each story is remarkably different from the others which surround it, ranging from the sweetly insouciant fantasy of ``The Blue Stone'' to the frontier comedy of ``The Contests at Cowlick'' and from the somberly mythic ``Dark Princess'' to the lighthearted ``Leprechaun's Story.'' What the stories do have in commonaside from the richness of their languageis vivid and loving characterization, levels of meaning which speak to a multi-generational audience, the timeless, enduring appeal of stories which have been told around long generations of campfires, and an astonishing gift of imagination. Michael Cart, Beverly Hills Public Library
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0060232560
- ISBN 13 9780060232566
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages270
- IllustratorSewall Marcia
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