The Dark is Rising (Dark Is Rising Sequence) - Softcover

Cooper, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689710879 ISBN 13: 9780689710872

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1986

Synopsis

On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift - that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated throughout the ages to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. He is plunged at once into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. Thereafter, for the twelve days of Christmas while the Dark is rising, life for Will, although outwardly normal, is strangely wonderful as he is drawn through terror and delight. This book is a rare act of creative imagination in which the reader will be equally moved by the warm happy village life Will shares with his large family and the nearly overwhelming danger he encounters, often in other centuries and places, while he seeks the Signs and learns their power. Interweaving ancient Celtic and English traditions with the legends of the Buckinghamshire hills and valleys where she grew up, Susan Cooper has written a superlative dramatic fantasy of the eternal conflict between good and evil out of which all myth is made.

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Review:

Psychology Today"Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrativepowers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good andevil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. And Cooperwrites in the same tradition."

Book Description:

Good battles evil as the future of the world hangs in the balance, in this Carnegie shortlisted novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0689710879
• ISBN 13: 9780689710872
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 244