The Voice That Thunders: Essays and Lectures - Hardcover

Garner, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860464688 ISBN 13: 9781860464683

Publisher: Harvill Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Pre-eminent as a writer of fiction for children, Alan Garner is also an essayist and lecturer. This collection, taken from the work of more than twenty years, explores an enviable range of scholarly interests: archaeology, myth, language, education, philosophy, the spiritual quest, mental health, literature, music and film.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Garner was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1934 and grew up in Alderly Edge, where his father's family had lived for more than three hundred years. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Magdelen College, Oxford, after which he began writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, at the age of twenty-two. He is renowned as one of Britain's outstanding writers for young adults and has won many prizes for his writing. In 2001 he was awarded the OBE for services to literature. His books include Elidor, The Owl Service (winner of the Carnegie Medal) , Red Shift, The Stone Book Quartet (winner of the Phoenix Award of America) and, most recently, Strandloper.

Review

"His is a consummate artist's vision that matches landscape and people and story; his is an artist's ear able to hear preliterate song as well as local speech and adolescent slang. With great skill he has wielded these into tales uniquely blending rustic vigour and classical economy of diction. They have won him a place in the company of English writers" -- Ralph Elliott * Labrys 7 * "Garner is his own man... taut, powerful and credible" -- Penelope Lively "His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction" -- Jacky Gillott * The Times * "Alan Garner's themes are huge, urgent, compassionate, his voice distinguished by clarity, compression, precision, depth of feeling and sharpness of thought" -- Neil Philip in A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvill Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1860464688
• ISBN 13: 9781860464683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 244