Treacle Walker

Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
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NZ$ 22.99
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 160pg
4 Aug 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008477806
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Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him. ' Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!' Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip. Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined.
Praise for Where Shall We Run To:' In old age childhood memories become vivid again and it' s the present that disappears behind a confusion of vivid fragments. In this book, Garner, now old, has faced that pattern and in place of the bewildering, wonky memory of old age, produced something precise and fresh as flowers. He has become - as we' re told we must - as a little child. He' s also produced one of the best things he' s ever written. ' Frank Cotterell-Boyce, New Statesman' Its encounters are vivid and immediate, but it is also an examination of class and change in the England of those years. ' Erica Wagner, Financial Times' Every street, every house, every carved stone, mysterious well, dark pond and perilously steep cliff-edge is remembered and described, as Garner roams through it, with a succession of companions. . . . Garner' s detailed recall of so many characters and events is extraordinary' Sue Gaisford, The Tablet' In this slight but charming memoir about his wartime childhood in Alderley Edge, Garner has pulled off the same trick - making the Cheshire landscape feel fresh, while bringing a new perspective to a tried and tested literary form. . and Oh, what language' Ben Lawrence, Sunday Telegraph' This is a book very much about reading and writing, about the marks that we use to give life meaning, whether they are a tramp' s chalk-mark on a wall or the comics and Arthur Mee' s The Children' s Encyclopaedia that allow young Alan to get past block capitals and closer to Real Writing. It is also a book written without a single scrap of hindsight, or rationalisation of the past. This, then, is a writer' s memoir' Brian Morton, HeraldPraise for Alan Garner:' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration' Philip Pullman
Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, ' The Owl Service' brought Alan Garner to everyone' s attention. It won two important literary prizes - The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal - and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008477806
Published: 4 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 160

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