The Green Man

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 08 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 1900624214
ISBN 13: 9781900624213
Book Overview: This book was first published in a collection of short stories written by Jane Gardam called Missing the Midnight: Hauntings and Grotesques. Jane Gardam is an acknowledged master of the short story and her collections have won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby prize and the Katherine Mansfield Award. She has also won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. As soon as she had finished writing The Green Man, she sent it to her good friend, the artist Mary Fedden. Mary was so inspired that she immediately put brush to paper and produced several evocative and enchanting watercolours. This book is a result of this unexpected collaboration. Mary Fedden, RA, is a leading figure in British contemporary art. Still working, although now in her eighties, she has exhibited every year since 1947. She has been awarded the 1998 Mother Goose Award for Children's Book Illustrator. The myth of the Green Man seems once more to have entered into our consciousness, perhaps for the first time since the Middle Ages - here is a modern twist on the ancient fertility image of legend, church carvings and pub signs.