Boneland

Author(s): Alan Garner

Fiction

A major novel from one of the country's greatest writers, and the crowning achievement of an astonishing career, BONELAND is also the long-awaited conclusion to the story of Colin and Susan - a story that began over fifty years ago in THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN...IF THE SLEEPER WAKES, THE DREAM DIES...Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying. Colin can't remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve, if he wants to find his sister. And the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, and there will be only winter, wanderers and moon...

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Laurels for Alan Garner: "Alan Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful. His work is where human emotion and mythic resonance, sexuality and geology, modernity and memory and craftsmanship meet and cross-fertilise. Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names. But that,s the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration." Philip Pullman

General Fields

  • : 9780007463244
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Fourth Estate Ltd
  • : 31 May 2012
  • : 01 September 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alan Garner
  • : 416