David Almond
Subtitle: Memory and Magic (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: June 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780810855007
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; English; Personal Memoirs; Almond, David,; Non-Classifiable; 1951-; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Young adult literature, English
Description: "David Almond: Memory and Magic introduces Almond's life and work, focusing on his contribution to YA literature. It considers his major themes, most notably the development of identity as an ongoing process that occurs in a series of borderlands -- childhood and adulthood, the natural and the supernatural, life and death, and past and present. Related to that theme is a fascination with darkness and death"--Jacket.