The Seeing Stone
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7528-3858-8 (ISBN)
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The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches, where young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone. When Author starts to see stories in the stone, his life quickly becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the boy who pulls the sword in the stone. In the many-layered novel of which this is the talking book, King Arthur is seen as a figure for all time - an exemplar to his namesake, a mysterious presence influencing not just one time and place but many. The 100 short chapters are almost like sound bites, not only of the mythical past of King Arthur but the real, earthy, uncomfortable Middle Ages. The turn of the century; uncertainty about the future; war and peace; Christianity and Islam; rationalism and superstition; the sharp contracts in the lives of rich and poor; all these issues impact on the life of a boy in a medieval manor and give the book its uniquely contemporary feel. The Seeing Stone is a unique and brilliant new take on the Arthurian story-cycle.The author is a magician with words and his light, speedy narrative is as easy to listen to as it is poetic.
Kevin Crossley-Holland won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm. His many notable books for adults and children include poetry, classic retellings and anthologies. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmes and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. For some years he held a university post in Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Seeing Stone won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2001 and At The Crossing-Places on a Silver award at the 2001 SWPA Spoken Word Awards. Samuel West, the son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales, has appeared in films ranging from Notting Hill to Iris, on television in Persuasion and Prince Caspian and on stage (including an acclaimed Hamlet for the RSC). Radio work includes The Merchant of Venice, Poetry Please and Richard II (as Richard).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.8.2000 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Pack |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7528-3858-X / 075283858X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7528-3858-8 / 9780752838588 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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