num_pages: 172
description: Craftsmen pass on, or withhold, secrets of their relationship with the natural world, which gives them the material from which they create useful and beautiful things. Smiths and weavers, masons and quarrymen - all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that somehow, somewhere was lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore it. And a very particular landscape, on the outskirts of industrial Manchester, is brought tangibly to this beautiful book's pages.Alan Garner is widely held to be the most distinctive and memorable writer of children's literature that Britain has produced since the Second World War. With the publication in 1996 of Strandloper, he gained a wider audience for his work among adults, an audience who will find pleasures and rewards aplenty in this modern classic, republished here for the first time in Flamingo.(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780006551515)
language: English
title: The Stone Book Quartet
titlecomplete: The Stone Book Quartet
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, Literary Fiction, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 487
series: The Stone Book Quartet
publisher: Flamingo