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New York Review Books Classics
NYRB Classics
November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Featuring: Thomas Rowley; Tom; Jan
232 pages
ISBN: 1590174437
EAN: 9781590174432
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
In second-century Britain, Macey and a gang of fellow
deserters from the Roman army hunt and are hunted by deadly
local tribes. Fifteen centuries later, during the English
Civil War, Thomas Rowley hides from the ruthless troops who
have encircled his village. And in contemporary Britain,
Tom, a precocious, love-struck, mentally unstable teenager,
struggles to cope with the imminent departure for London of
his girlfriend, Jan. Three separate stories, three utterly different lives,
distant in time and yet strangely linked to a single place,
the mysterious, looming outcrop known as Mow Cop, and a
single object, the blunt head of a stone axe: all these come
together in Alan Garner’s extraordinary Red Shift, a
pyrotechnical and deeply moving elaboration on themes of
chance and fate, time and eternity, visionary awakening and
destructive madness.
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