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Alan Garner and the Work of Time

Alan Garner and the Work of Time

Edgar, Robert
Johnson, Wayne
Marland, John

Hardcover

Series: Twenty-First Century Perspectives

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1526188988
ISBN13: 9781526188984
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Alan Garner has been described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien'. This book is the first collected edition to critically analyse Garner's body of work. This comprehensive analysis stretches from Garner's early work, from the straightforward magical world of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) to the more challenging 'adolescent fiction' of The Owl Service (1967) and Red Shift (1973). It then moves to analysis of Garner's subsequent corpus of work that is remarkable for both its thematic continuity and imaginative range, including Strandloper (1996), Thursbitch (2003) and Boneland (2012). His most recent novel, Treacle Walker, was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and recent criticism centred on folk horror and hauntology has reignited a critical and public acknowledgement of Garner's work.

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