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` Eerie and immaculately written'
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This short book packs in a vast panorama - but this unfolds in your head rather than on the page. His poetic evocation of landscape through the lists of wonderful place-names is glorious, and the intertwined ghost stories - each period haunted by the spirits of the other - only become clear as the characters let you into their souls bit by bit.
If you love the ancient English countryside, and enjoy some real magic - read this book. The language is occassionally obscure but well worth the effort.
As a child I loved the Wierdstone of Brisinghamen and the Moon of Gomrath - and now that I am "grown-up", I was delighted to find an Alan Garner book for adults.
If you love the ancient English countryside, and enjoy some real magic - read this book. The language is occassionally obscure but well worth the effort.
As a child I loved the Wierdstone of Brisinghamen and the Moon of Gomrath - and now that I am "grown-up", I was delighted to find an Alan Garner book for adults.
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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Alan Garner has consistently written captivating and elegaic novels. From The Weirdstone of Brisingamen right up to date with Thursbitch. Don't let the mildly off putting title distract you. This is a superb novel reverberating between the past and the present. Its material is quite dark but Garner puts it all in a context which ends on a sad but triumphant note. Even though it a quite short it is so crammed with meaning that you feel as though you have just read a block buster. And indeed you have, if you like thought provoking, orignal and moving stories Thursbitch is exceptional - buy it now.
56 of 60 people found the following review helpful
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I don't have the words to describe Thursbitch, the book. Hauntingly beautiful, sad and uplifting, enthralling and terrible: these only hint at the magic that Alan Garner has pursued for half a century, and which he now shares with us.
The dust jacket describes Thursbitch as a "visionary fable rooted in a verifiable place". It doesn't mention Alan Garner's fanatical depth of research; his ability to awaken atmosphere from the earth and stones under our feet; the uncannily bare descriptions of people and place, leaving everything but nothing to the reader's imagination; or the sheer honesty which pervades every page.
Thursbitch is Alan Garner's solution to a conundrum, an ancient puzzle, but it is so much more than an historical novel. It is built from the humanity of the Stone Book quartet; it resolves the questions left by Red Shift; draws more mythic power from the land than the Owl Service; and resonates with the poetry which concluded the Moon of Gomrath. Strandloper, an incredible achievement, stands now as a waymarker: Thursbitch is the heart.
Read it, quietly and alone, and be humbled.
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Strange and Stark
Like all Alan Garner's work, this is beautifully crafted. The reader moves from the usual world of 'what you see is what you get' to one where the laws of cause and effect are... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Stargazer
Evocative story
Like other reviewers I read earlier books by Alan Graner when I was much younger, and still re read them regularly.
Thursbitch tugged at my heart strings. Read more
Thursbitch tugged at my heart strings. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Alison Kay
Needs to be read twice (at least)
As others have said this is a beautiful and haunting book. It is deceptively slim but each page requires careful reading and it isn't until it's read for the second time that the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by the hill mouse
Stones, bees, bulls
A very, very odd book. Incredibly short with sparingly (and cleverly) revealed characterisation but packs a lot of plot, and most importantly imagery into its 154 pages. Read more
Published 17 months ago by P. J. Dunn
Thursbitch, a many layered story about the spirit of a place
In Thursbitch, a real settlement in the Cheshire uplands, events and beliefs of the past still linger on, so that stories are told and events replayed in the dark history of this... Read more
Published on 17 May 2010 by M. V. Williams
Glossary essential, so where is it?
Fascinating book from a great Cheshire writer, but what an opportunity missed by the author and the publishers to elucidate and promote local language. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2009 by lynnerz
Lyrical and Alan Garner's best
I have always loved Alan Garner's work and this one I feel is his very best. He visits the theme of parallel time lines once again, two stories over a hundred years apart. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2009 by Brenda Henderson
Intriguing but hard to follow
This is two stories in one book. One deals with a modern day couple exploring a valley with a number of standing stones. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by Mr. M. Jones
An astonishing read....
Once a year maybe, if you're lucky, you come across a book that takes you somewhere you've never been before. That's what I read books for anyhow. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2008 by JP Sivori
characters speak for themselves; narrator speak for the landscape
Alan Garner's mastery of language can never be questioned. After the wilful outpouring of verbiage and meaningless exposition in the last book I read (Marquez), the precision and... Read more
Published on 13 July 2006 by deadmanjones
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