Alan Garner





Alan Garner

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October 17, 1934 in Congleton, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

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Average rating: 3.77 · 3,618 ratings · 348 reviews · 46 distinct works
The Weirdstone of Brisingam...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — published 1960 — 23 editions
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The Owl Service
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — published 1967 — 27 editions
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Elidor
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 1965 — 21 editions
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The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1967 — 16 editions
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Red Shift
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions
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Thursbitch
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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The Stone Book Quartet
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
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Strandloper
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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The Voice That Thunders
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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Collected Folk Tales
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Tales of Alderley (3 books)
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“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”
Alan Garner, The Owl Service

“... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.”
Alan Garner, The Voice That Thunders

“Lleu is a hard lord,” said Huw, “He is killing Gronw without anger, without love, without mercy. He is hurt too much by the woman and the spear. Yet what is there when it is done? His pride. No spear. No friend.”
Roger started at Huw. “You’re not so green as you’re grass-looking, are you?” he said. “Now you mention it, I have been thinking— That bloke Gronw was the only one with any real guts at the end.”
“But none of them is all to blame,” said Huw. “It is only together they are destroying each other.”
“That Blod-woman was pretty poor,” said Roger, “however you look at it.”
“No,” said Huw. “She was made for her lord. Nobody is asking her if she wants him. It is bitter twisting to be shut up with a person you are not liking very much. I think she was longing for the time when she was flowers on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose is growing thorns.”
Alan Garner, The Owl Service

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