Red Shift Paperback - 2011

Name: Red Shift (New York Review Books Classics)
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ISBN: 9781590174432

by Alan Garner; Introduction by Alan Garner

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Alan Garner (b. 1934) has lived for most of his life in Cheshire, England. His first book, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen came out in 1960 and since then he has published eight novels for children and adults, as well as opera libretti, plays, and collections of folktales. Among his books are The Owl Service (winner of the Carnegie Medal; 1967), The Stone Book Quartet (comprising The Stone Book, Granny Reardun, Tom Fobble’s Day, and The Aimer Gate; 1983), Strandloper (1996), and Thursbitch (2003). In 2001 Garner was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to literature.

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Title Red Shift
Author Alan Garner; Introduction by Alan Garner
Binding Paperback
Pages 232
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher New York Review of Books, New York
Date 2011-10-25
ISBN 9781590174432 / 1590174437
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.5 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011028992
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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“Red Shift, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and its vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to the core every time I read it, and still does. . . . More than any orthodox work of historical fiction, it was this weird fantasy novel which taught me to look beyond the walls of my own era, my own reality. Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed.”
—Emma Donoghue

“Garner squeezes language into depth charges which will detonate emotions at a level where words cannot reach.”
—The Listener

“A bitter, complex, brilliant book.” —Ursula Le Guin

“Long before Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling there was Alan Garner, a children’s author who crossed the boundaries between real and imaginary worlds—and between a young and an adult readership.”
—The Times (London) list of the 50 greatest British postwar writers

“A work of poetic imagination that will keep any adult mind at full stretch.”
—Daily Mail (London)

“. . . a magnificently multilayered novel. . . a superbly exciting piece of literature.” —The Sunday Times (London)

About the author

Alan Garner (b. 1934) has lived for most of his life in Cheshire, England. His first book, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen came out in 1960 and since then he has published eight novels for children and adults, as well as opera libretti, plays, and collections of folktales. Among his books are The Owl Service (winner of the Carnegie Medal; 1967), The Stone Book Quartet (comprising The Stone Book, Granny Reardun, Tom Fobble's Day, and The Aimer Gate; 1983), Strandloper (1996), and Thursbitch (2003). In 2001 Garner was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to literature.

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