Point About Books Red Shift
| Title | : | Red Shift |
| Author | : | Alan Garner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | New edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | October 7th 2002 by Collins Voyager (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Science Fiction |
Alan Garner
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.58 | 1291 Users | 172 Reviews
Explanation Concering Books Red Shift
A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power of the moon's axe and each seek their own refuge at Mow Cop. Can those they love so intensely keep them clinging to reality? Or is the future evermore destined to reflect the past?
Describe Books To Red Shift
| Original Title: | Red Shift |
| ISBN: | 0007127863 (ISBN13: 9780007127863) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books Red Shift
Ratings: 3.58 From 1291 Users | 172 ReviewsCommentary About Books Red Shift
One reviewer said: "There was too much dialog and not enough explanation. It was even hard to keep track of who was saying what."Now this is true, but it's intentional and it's really effective. You have to be prepared to let the text wash over you, then the meaning seeps right into your unconscious and it has extraordinary power. The nearest equivalent I've seen to this technique is Benjy's stream of consciousness in The Sound & the Fury. It effects a degree of immersion that you can't getFour or five stars? Originally gave it four stars because of trifling annoyances (the unattributed dialogue can get confusing, if my book didn't have an introduction by the author I am pretty sure I would be very puzzled at what was going on for a while). But no, it's five stars... The way he uses language and crafts dialogue is amazing, it's hard not to have it change the way you think or write. It is, for lack of a better word, a "tight" novel. He is somehow able to use modern language in a
I think it should have more than five stars. It's up there with Ulysses, the Waste Land and Briggflatts, or with Gawain and the Green Knight or the Tain or the Mabinogion. I first read this far too many years ago when i was probably the same age as the protagonist, and liked the book for the usual wrong reasons, but I have reread it on a regular basis ever since. For my money he's the best prose writer in English and the most interesting. This book is the hinge in the sequence, moving away from
Most folk, I suspect will read Red Shift as the story of Tom, Thomas, and Macey rather than Jan, Margery, and the unnamed girl. The men are certainly the link between the the arcs, but the story? Familiarly with Garner, place is a major character, and it is so here more accessibly and transparently than the books that follow. Yet relationships overflow in Red Shift along with their consequences. The balance between the two is perhaps the best of his here; more so because it doesn't rely on myth.
I just read this book again after many years. What amazed me is how much of it has stayed with me, even though I don't fully understand what it is supposed to be about.The story is set in 3 time periods spanning near 2000 years. In each there is a troubled young man who is loved by a young woman. The couples are linked by their posession of a stone axe head and their stories take place in the same geographical location. In two of the stories, the couple are involved in a massacre. In the third,
A story about this, first. I was in my local independent book store (Book Soup) and I saw this on the shelf, in atypically striking New York Review of Books cover. It glowed for some reason, so I bought it. I wasn't looking for it.I knew nothing about it. I saw on the back that Emma Donoghue, whose ROOM I haven't read, blurbed it. I said:why not? And even as I write these words, I realize that the words "Why not?" are endangered these days. Maybe by"Why not?" I also mean a life with the element
A very strange book -- in a career characterized by the strangeness of his work, Red Shift might be Garner's strangest. The novel is concerned with the interconnections between past and present: characters from the 17th century experience the pain and trauma of a character from the 20th century, a Roman soldier sees a train from a station at Crewe. Told mostly in dialogue, it's hard for the reader to understand the exact details of the narrative, to pin each character down, but it's not hard to
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