Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #643024 in Books
• Published on: 2004
• Format: Import
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

A contrary opinion
I haven't read Thursbitch, but I have read every other one of Alan Garner's books, over and over, from the time I was 10 until yesterday (at 55). The previous reviewer compares this book to The Stone Book Quartet, neither of which he could finish (and I imagine he'd be even less keen on the dazzling short novel for adults, Strandloper). I just came to Amazon to look for copies of The Stone Book Quartet as gifts to my two oldest friends. It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Almost single-handedly Garner maintains the value and beauty of the well-made thing--his books are well-made like bells or violins, like a good table or bed. And Stone Book Quartet is about the deep magic of such things, made of stone and wood and fibre, and of the craft-magicians who make them. So I'm ordering Thursbitch right now!

Couldn't settle
Alan Garner has won almost every literary prize, and received an OBE for literature, yet I couldn't settle down with one of his books. His dialogue is hard going, with local dialect confusing. Chopped sentences with scenes switching with no warning. I tried both Thursbitch and the Stone Book Quartet (the better of the two) but finished neither.