Mischief Acts: 'Joyous' THE TIMES, Best summer reads 2022
Autor Zoe Gilberten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2023
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'A work of extraordinary ambition, brilliantly realised' OBSERVER
'A mesmerising journey down the byways of English folklore' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Verbally dextrous, inventive, and hugely entertaining' THE TIMES
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Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through the centuries pursued by his creator.
A shapeshifter, Herne dons many guises as he slips and ripples through time - at candlelit Twelfth Night revels, at the spectacular burning of the Crystal Palace, at an acid-laced Sixties party. Wherever he goes, transgression, debauch and enchantment always follow in his wake.
But as the forest is increasingly encroached upon by urban sprawl and gentrification, and the world slides into crisis, Herne must find a way to survive - or exact his revenge.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526628794
ISBN-10: 1526628791
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526628791
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Weaving together prose and poetry, myth and history, the past, present and future, it's a work of extraordinary ambition, brilliantly realised
A dark-dazzling archive of enchantments, pursuit, and desire
Inventive and subversive ... A mesmerising journey down the byways of English folklore
Verbally dextrous, inventive, and hugely entertaining
This is the most adventurous, stylistically magnificent thing I've read for years. Nobody does fantasy like Zoe Gilbert
Mischief Acts is a deeply lyrical, century-spanning polyphony of voices; a dazzling new take on an ancient myth, reminding us of the wildness within. I adored it
Mischief Acts is brimming with magic - full of wild hunts, river spirits and revelry. The story of Herne, like the forest itself, transforms, entangles and enchants
Superb. A work of shimmering allure. By turns beguiling and mercurial, Gilbert takes British folklore to new heights
Praise for Folk: 'An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient - drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore - and strikingly contemporary, pushing at the edges of what we mean when we call a book a novel. In Folk, Zoe Gilbert has made a thing of strange and enduring beauty
Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life, each story a spell, an allegory, a dark, smoky poem divined from the landscape of our ancient kingdom . It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind
Genuinely original, disturbing, beautiful and gripping ... Folk can be read as a map of the British mythic imagination: of the river under the river. Starkly original and expertly written, it draws you, like a faerie song, into a kingdom from which you may never escape, and may not want to
Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales
A dark, often discomforting debut . Gilbert's sensuous prose conjures fantastical figures including a man born with a wing for an arm, and a girl who's abducted by a water bull . Bewitching
Folk is absolutely stunning. I loved it. With gorgeous, incantatory prose, it submerges you in a mysterious and utterly compelling world. Its illumination lingers long after you close the book
I was thoroughly absorbed. Zoe Gilbert's invented folk-world is sensuous and dangerous and thick with magic
That rare thing: genuinely unique. It's part-myth, part-allegory, wholly wonderful
A captivating mythical, magical and haunting debut which draws on fascinating folklore
A dark-dazzling archive of enchantments, pursuit, and desire
Inventive and subversive ... A mesmerising journey down the byways of English folklore
Verbally dextrous, inventive, and hugely entertaining
This is the most adventurous, stylistically magnificent thing I've read for years. Nobody does fantasy like Zoe Gilbert
Mischief Acts is a deeply lyrical, century-spanning polyphony of voices; a dazzling new take on an ancient myth, reminding us of the wildness within. I adored it
Mischief Acts is brimming with magic - full of wild hunts, river spirits and revelry. The story of Herne, like the forest itself, transforms, entangles and enchants
Superb. A work of shimmering allure. By turns beguiling and mercurial, Gilbert takes British folklore to new heights
Praise for Folk: 'An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient - drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore - and strikingly contemporary, pushing at the edges of what we mean when we call a book a novel. In Folk, Zoe Gilbert has made a thing of strange and enduring beauty
Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life, each story a spell, an allegory, a dark, smoky poem divined from the landscape of our ancient kingdom . It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind
Genuinely original, disturbing, beautiful and gripping ... Folk can be read as a map of the British mythic imagination: of the river under the river. Starkly original and expertly written, it draws you, like a faerie song, into a kingdom from which you may never escape, and may not want to
Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales
A dark, often discomforting debut . Gilbert's sensuous prose conjures fantastical figures including a man born with a wing for an arm, and a girl who's abducted by a water bull . Bewitching
Folk is absolutely stunning. I loved it. With gorgeous, incantatory prose, it submerges you in a mysterious and utterly compelling world. Its illumination lingers long after you close the book
I was thoroughly absorbed. Zoe Gilbert's invented folk-world is sensuous and dangerous and thick with magic
That rare thing: genuinely unique. It's part-myth, part-allegory, wholly wonderful
A captivating mythical, magical and haunting debut which draws on fascinating folklore