false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255750044m/222818.jpg 38657 20 Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature. In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry’s life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. But he can’t hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world. The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights. 1139516 9 5 2006 The Stolen Child: A Novel total:2759|5:536|4:1099|3:812|2:255|1:57| 2759 10079 4423 635 5 8 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 09 20:05:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 20:06:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jun 12 11:46:27 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 11:46:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 02:58:25 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 04:00:05 -0700 2009 Prelude to a Kiss? Meg Ryan gets kissed by an old man, and they swap bodies. She's stuck in his decrepit aging body and he's in her young lithe one. This book is Meg Ryan after the switcheroo.

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What an unexpected read. I can't even remember what i was expecting when i was first intrigued by it on amazon's urging that i would love it based on another book i bought a while ago. But what i found inside its pages was not that. And at first i was disappointed ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 18:30:20 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 18:31:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 04:35:29 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 04:35:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 25 08:01:48 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:46:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jul 01 14:23:42 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 14:23:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat May 24 23:20:55 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 13:58:22 -0700 2008 "The trick of growing up is to remember to grow."
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue was inspired by the W. B. Yeats poem of the same name (which was also used in the wonderful film~in my ever so humble opinion A.I. {based on the short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldi...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Feb 15 12:36:21 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 12:47:21 -0800 2008 The Stolen Child.

I had found out about the novel on NPR, and it intrigued ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 27 11:48:09 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 31 14:05:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 22:42:45 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 22:24:07 -0700 2007 The Stolen Child I will be first in line to read them. With The Stolen Child being his first novel Donohue definitely does not burst quietly on to the scene. The only problem he may encounter fo...more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 04:30:11 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 09:15:11 -0800 2008 Very strange book... not quite sure why I didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I would. While I was reading it I was intrigued by the fairy tale for adults aspect, but that isn't what would bother me - if anything I felt it didn't go far enough. The switching between the ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 11:10:32 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:11:27 -0800 2009 2 1 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 15:45:50 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 12:01:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Nov 24 11:30:37 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 05:32:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 08:30:18 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:38:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 23:58:39 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 01:20:10 -0800 2009 Peter Pan and detected a note of bittersweet in the story of the boy who never grew up, this book is for you. There's no direct link between Donohue's story and Barrie's, but reading this novel I was constantly thinking of the Lost Boys, transplanted from Neverland to our world a...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 28 10:52:29 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:52:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=222818