The Voice that Thunders - Hardcover

Garner, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860464688 ISBN 13: 9781860464683

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1999

Synopsis

A collection of Alan Garner's lectures and prose pieces over thirty years.

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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)

Book Description

A rich collection of writings ranging through archeology, myth, music, philosophy, language and literature; it also serves as a poetic autobiography of a great and deeply English writer.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860464688
• ISBN 13: 9781860464683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244