Red Shift: The classic children’s fantasy tale - Softcover

Garner, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007127863 ISBN 13: 9780007127863

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2014

Synopsis

A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life.

Under Orion’s stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power of the moon’s axe and each seek their own refuge at Mow Cop.

Can those they love so intensely keep them clinging to reality? Or is the future evermore destined to reflect the past?

About this title

Review:

“A magnificently multilayered novel... and a superbly exciting piece of literature.”
The Times

“...A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch.”
Daily Mail

“A bitter, complex, brilliant book.”
Ursula Le Guin

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007127863
• ISBN 13: 9780007127863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192