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Half a Creature from the Sea A Life in Stories

By: Publication details: UK; Walker Books; 2016Description: 240 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781406365597
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.92
Summary: A diverse collection of stories from the author of the internationally award-winning Skellig, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. David Almond says of this unique volume, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world - but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Child Karachi Children's Fiction 823.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Lost PKLC028578
Book Child Lahore Children's Fiction 823.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC022014
Total holds: 0

A diverse collection of stories from the author of the internationally award-winning Skellig, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. David Almond says of this unique volume, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world - but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."

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