Strandloper: From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker

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Paperback
1997
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I sing the eagle. Bone of the Cloud. The Clashing Rock. The Hard Darkness. It hangs above the grave mound. I sing, dreaming...William Buckley was transported to Australia in 1801. He escaped and lived as an Aborigine for thirty-one years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

Synopsis

I sing the eagle. "Bone of the Cloud. The Clashing Rock. The Hard Darkness." It hangs above the grave mound. I sing, dreaming...William Buckley was transported to Australia in 1801. He escaped and lived as an Aborigine for thirty-one years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Jul 1997
ISBN 10: 1860461611
ISBN 13: 9781860461613
Book Overview: Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman who, having been sentenced and transported to Australia, escaped to live among the Aborigines for thirty years.

Media Reviews

A work of terrible beauty -- Nicci Gerard * Observer *
A remarkable feat of literary imagination -- Stephen Amidon * Sunday Times *
Strandloper's vision is cosmic and as elusive as a rainbow... The ending gathers the words into a powerful cry for wisdom that recognises the ineffable -- Rosemary Sorensen * Sydney Morning Herald *

Author Bio

Alan Garner was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1934 and grew up in Alderly Edge, where his father's family had lived for more than three hundred years. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Magdelen College, Oxford, after which he began writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, at the age of twenty-two. He is renowned as one of Britain's outstanding writers for young adults and has won many prizes for his writing. In 2001 he was awarded the OBE for services to literature.