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First light : a celebration of the life and work of Alan Garner / edited by Erica Wagner.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Unbound, 2016.
©2016
Description
xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR6057.A66 Z65 2016
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Subject(s)
Garner, Alan 1934-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Editor
Wagner, Erica, 1967-
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Garner, Alan, 1934-
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Summary note
"Through original fiction, poetry, reflections on his work and memories of Alan Garner himself, each [contributor] pays tribute to his life and legacy.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302).
Contents
Introduction / Jiffy bag / Erica Wagner
At the edge / David Almond
The cosmic lighthouse: Alan Garner and Jodrell Bank / Teresa Anderson
The Full Moon Shopping Mall / Margaret Atwood
Reading together, reading apart / John Burnside
In the same room at the same time / Susan Cooper
Where the starlight sings / Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The still point of the compass: Alan Garner's siblings / Amanda Craig
The gatepost / Bob Cywinski
Go, in the form of a bird / Maura Dooley
The owl service: crossing the threshold / Helen Dunmore
Possessions / Mark Edmonds
Of the earth, earthy ... / Stephen Fry
Storytellers, shapeshifters / Cornelia Funke
The world and the worlds: some musings and two book reviews / Neil Gaiman
The given / Elizabeth Garner
The othering: down from Oxford, finding my place / Joseph Garner
Mr. Garner's reading lesson / Ben Haggarty
The sleeping king and the body of a world / Nick Hennessey
Pockets / Dougald Hine.
Alan Garner and Alan Turing: on the road / Andrew Hodges
Alan to an academic: history and mythology in Alan Garner's novels / Ronald Hutton
The speaking of the stones: two things I learned from Alan Garner / Paul Kingsnorth
Gripe Griffin / Olivia Laing
The weirdstone of Talybont / Katherine Langrish
The joining of the song / Hugh Lupton
But still we walk / Helen Macdonald.The edge: a name map / Robert Macfarlane
The bull-roarer / Gregory Maguire
It wasn't meant to be like this / Bel Mooney
Unfinished business / Richard Morris
From Calcutta to Cheshire / Neel Mukherjee
A ghost book: the "stone book" / Richard Ovenden
Beyond the singularity / Neil Philip
'An oak shovel ... roughly used' / John Prag
Of things and people / Francis Pryor
Alan Garner: craftsmanship / Philip Pullman
Righteous Garner / Ali Smith
Feeding the spark / Ian Thorpe
Quiet in disquiet: the owl service / Salley Vickers
Here or there or elsewhere / Elizabeth Wein
Alderley: for Alan Garner / Rowan Williams
The cave of wonders and the peoples of the West / Michael Wood
Alan Garner: a selected bibliography.
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ISBN
9781783522521 ((trade hardback))
1783522526 ((trade hardback))
9781783522927
1783522925
LCCN
2017491256
OCLC
919859123
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