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The Voice That Thunders

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The Voice That Thunders

Alan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist. This collection, taken form the work of more that twenty years, explores an enviable range of scholarly interests: archaeology, myth, language, education, philosophy, the spiritual quest, mental health, literature, music and film.

The book also serves as a poetic autobiography of one of England's best-loved but least public writers. He hears himself declared dead at the age of six; he draws on the deep vein of a rural working-class childhood in a family of craftsmen who instilled the passion for excellence and for innovation and humour. The disciplines he learnt as a Classicist give a shape and clarity to that passion in this richly various book that would have fascinated his forebears, whose work and lives are also celebrated here.

This most unusual, most candid, most vivid picture of an English family and its home, its country's history, is also a devastating revelation of a writer's own life. Alan Garner's account of his mental illness will become a classic, and each strand of the book will be a source of fascination to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of an Alan Garner story, as also to all who concern themselves with the craft of writing.

Country	USA
Author	Alan Garner
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781448162864
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage Digital
Manufacturer	Vintage Digital
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2014-03-27
Publisher	Vintage Digital
ReleaseDate	2014-03-27
Studio	Vintage Digital

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