The Crane Wife - Softcover

Patrick Ness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857868748 ISBN 13: 9780857868749

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Crane Wife

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Review:

Delightful and heart-warming (Grazia)

The Crane Wife is a special novel: a perfect fusion of surreal imagery and beautifully crafted internal logic. Turning it over in my hands once I'd finished, I began to think of it as the literary equivalent of a Japanese puzzle box with poetry, ideas and jokes twisting and sliding out of it at surprising angles (Helen Brown Daily Telegraph)

The dialogue is natural and inspired, and sparkles with latent tension (Independent on Sunday)

A lovely and magical book (T.C. Boyle)

Patrick Ness is on top form here . . . The Crane Wife is a tale full of bittersweet wonder with a very human soul. A treat. (Matt Haig)

This is a novel that treads with feather-deft steps through ordinary lives touched by magic, then takes flight on wing beats of powerful storytelling (ALI SHAW, author of The Girl with Glass Feet)

A heart-warmingly deranged new voice (Guardian)

When George and his daughter, with their seemingly ordinary quirks and heartbreaks, are befriended by an enigmatic woman, art, beauty, and myth become living forces in their lives. This poignant novel echoes with the longings and sorrows of the ages. But what came as a most delightful surprise is the humor and humanity that Patrick Ness brings to this story (EOWYN IVEY, author of The Snow Child)

Ness is both accessible and sophisticated, handling big subjects in prose that is simple and heart-stopping (Sunday Times (on the Chaos Walking trilogy))

An insanely beautiful writer (Time Magazine)

Ness is a young writer of exciting quality and unpredictability (The Times)

Patrick Ness recreates the world as we know it, infusing it with a charm and whimsy (T.C. Boyle)

This is quite simply one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It hits an emotional tone that I can't quite put my finger on. It is a story told so simply yet reaches every fibre of your being. It is sad yet inspirational, full of hope but also despair, full of the magic of life but also it's consequences (Bite The Book)

I laughed, and I cried . . . but before it was over, I also felt like I'd lived another life, and died a little inside. That's how powerful Patrick Ness' new novel is (Niall Alexander Tor.com)

This is a novel about stories and the way they change from teller to teller. That motif emerges subtly at first, before becoming explicit as the climactic calamity arrives in several versions. By that painful finale, this flight of fancy is one his readers will be only too glad to have embarked upon (Brian Donaldson The List)

A fusion of mid-life crisis comedy and classic storytelling (Kate Saunders The Times)

It is rare to read a fictional reworking of a myth that doesn't simplify its source, that can do what myths do and convey a truth that the reader responds to but cannot necessarily define. The Crane Wife succeeds in this, which is why it is truly a book for grown-ups (Jake Kerridge Literary Review)

Brave and beautiful, full of compassion (Independent (on A Monster Calls))

Implicit in The Crane Wife is an insistence that differences are constructive and stories polysemous. Ness' stories exist simultaneously vibrating alongside one another, not jostling for positions so much as offering as many meanings as one can handle, and steadfastly refusing to be reduced to any one narrative of signification (Words of Mercury)

[The Crane Wife] opens windows to a world that is magical, timeless and wonderful and it stirred my heart in a way that few books can. If you've any interest at all in love, beauty and what makes us human, you should read this book and let i --The Times

Book Description:

The breakout adult novel from bestselling YA author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking series

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857868748
• ISBN 13: 9780857868749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320