Red Shift - Hardcover
In "Red Shift", conventional time means even less, and physical space even more. Lives which appear to be lived in different historical periods are bound together by a power that is outside space and time. "At the bottom level, my stories have to work as entertainment, keep a reader turning the page to find out what happens next. At the top level, they have to work for me, say what I want to express. In fact, I must write poetry, making words work on more than one level, subjecting myself to the poetic disciplines - pace, compression, simplicity." Alan Garner's book "The Owl Service" was widely acclaimed: "Without doubt, Mr. Alan Garner is one of the most exciting writers for young people today. He is producing work with strong plot structure, perceptive characterisation and vivid language." - Times Educational Supplement". ""The Owl Service" is not meant only for children or anyone else; it's a novel; and not many better novels will be published this year." - John Rowe Townsend, "The Guardian". "Alan Garner is one of the outstanding present-day writers for children; and "The Owl Service" takes him a step further into more magical, legendary adult worlds than he's gone so far." - Isabel Quigly, "Catholic Herald". "No confirmation of the stature of Alan Garner as a writer of children's fiction is needed; if it were, his latest novel, "The Owl Service", would establish it beyond doubt." - "Financial Times".
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Review:
"Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership." --"The Times" (London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch." --"Daily Mail" (London)
" A magnificently multilayered novel . . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula K. Le Guin
""Red Shift", with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue
"Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--"The Listener"
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin
"Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--"Daily Mail "(London)
." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
""Red Shift," with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue
"Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--"The Listener"
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin
"Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--"Daily Mail "(London)
." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
"Red Shift," with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed.
Emma Donoghue
Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach.
"The Listener"
A bitter, complex, brilliant book. Ursula Le Guin
Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children s author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds and between a young and an adult readership.
"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch.
"Daily Mail "(London)
. . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature. "The Sunday Times" (London)"
"Red Shift, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue "Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--The Listener "A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin "Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--The Times (London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers "A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--Daily Mail (London) ." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --The Sunday Times (London)
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"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch." --"Daily Mail" (London)
" A magnificently multilayered novel . . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula K. Le Guin
""Red Shift", with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue
"Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--"The Listener"
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin
"Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--"Daily Mail "(London)
." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
""Red Shift," with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue
"Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--"The Listener"
"A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin
"Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
"A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--"Daily Mail "(London)
." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --"The Sunday Times" (London)
"Red Shift," with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed.
Emma Donoghue
Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach.
"The Listener"
A bitter, complex, brilliant book. Ursula Le Guin
Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children s author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds and between a young and an adult readership.
"The Times "(London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers
A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch.
"Daily Mail "(London)
. . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature. "The Sunday Times" (London)"
"Red Shift, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."
--Emma Donoghue "Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach."
--The Listener "A bitter, complex, brilliant book." --Ursula Le Guin "Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children's author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds--and between a young and an adult readership."
--The Times (London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers "A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch."
--Daily Mail (London) ." . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature." --The Sunday Times (London)
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.
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- PublisherHarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0001841572
- ISBN 13 9780001841574
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages158
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