Alan garner red shift first edition

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Clean black cloth cover with gold titles. Age yellowing and faint few only foxing to head edge. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, Red Shift pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Owl Service by Alan Garner. Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner.

Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Red Shift by Alan Garner. Red Shift by Alan Garner. A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Under Orion's stars, bluesilver visions torment Tom, Macey and Thomas as they struggle with age-old forces. Distanced from each other in time, and isolated from those they live among, they are yet inextricably bound together by the sacred power of the moon's axe and each seek their own refuge at Mow Cop.

Can those they A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of life. Can those they love so intensely keep them clinging to reality? Or is the future evermore destined to reflect the past?

Get A Copy. Paperback , New edition , pages. Published October 7th by Collins Voyager first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Red Shift , please sign up. I'm interested to know what connections other readers have made between Red Shift and Tam Lin. I read the book as an extention to a study of the Tam Lin Folktale and found it extremely thought-provoking.

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Sort order. Start your review of Red Shift. Sep 01, Mark Lawrence rated it really liked it. This book came to me by accident from my publishers in a big box of author copies of The Liar's Key. I guess because they both have red covers In one of them she is deliberate aarrrrg - Goodreads or Chrome just killed and lost my review when I was 5 minutes into it! In one of them she is deliberately maimed to stop her running off from her new role as sex-slave. There are also a good number of brutal killings.

I may be underestimating him but I suspect that 14 year-old me would not have got far with it. Is it a good book? It is, but not in the way most SF books are. But it is, as I said, powerful, dense, literary stuff that will not suit everyone. I found the change in style to be vast though in the context of a 50 year gap, not astonishing. If I had read Red Shift before reading Boneland I would have been far less taken back by the change in style as most of the fundamentals of Boneland are to be found in Red Shift, though the gap between them is still around four decades.

At all. The locations and situations are not explained. Much of the book comes in the form of long unattributed conversations with quick-fire back and forth between the protagonists in short ambiguous lines, often using dialect terms or making allusions to events we have to deduce or literary or period references.

We never share the characters' thoughts - it could be a stage play for all the use it makes i. To my mind though YA literature is work that is written for Young Adults, making some attempt to shape itself to the brevity and nature of their experience. We have three young men with three young women in three separate situations in three different periods.

The only connections are the location, the presence of the hand axe, and the tenuous link through the confused minds of the men.

Our modern man seems to be having a breakdown with a variety of mental health issues. The other two the same with fits. I have a Physics degree, not an English Literature one. So there. My Goodreads friends give this book an average rating of 2. Try it. Some of you will love it, some will hate it. As a final thought - it's very hard to imagine this book being published in the SF genre today unless by Garner with 50 years of reputation under his belt.

I don't find that comforting. Join my Patreon Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter prizes View all 8 comments. Shelves: new-dimensions , into-the-past , time-to-come-of-age , rain-man-reviews , mind-the-gap , unstablenarratives , these-fragile-lives.

A lot of it unattributed, so there's that too," replied Mark. But no, it's readable. Just a certain kind of readable. For certain kinds of readers. It's not dense and it's not long but it's also not easy.

It doesn't let you in easy, into its world. Or worlds. Or, actually, lack of worlds - just one big blending of worlds, in a way. A world of words, bleeding together, these three characters' thoughts across th "So is it all dialogue then? A world of words, bleeding together, these three characters' thoughts across three different time periods and they are maybe the same person essentially but maybe not, the dialogue is all in a modern vernacular but the story skips throughout time.

Although time's meaningless too, in a way, and definitely in this book, and the ends these characters meet are all pretty inevitable. Timeless inevitability that's sad and terrible and beautiful and all those things. And maybe hard to grasp too. Different places but similar patterns repeated; different plunges but similar results.

Three characters are one character; one place changes but has a similar effect; one axe head, the same axe head. Despair and love and teenage confusion and rape and death and mutilation and teenage angst and people dying and people coming together and people falling apart. Things fall apart too and people return, always. Always the same So anyway: you like it easy, Mark, so maybe you should skip this one?

This Mark can handle it. He's as good at reading this stuff as college-age Mark was. This Mark likes a challenge and that Mark did too.

Who cares if he bought the book because that other Mark, the one in the middle - or maybe it was the third one? This is Garner's underappreciated masterpiece and it needs to be read. This Mark isn't much different than those other Marks, not that much; I bet all of them would want to read this book and would find something in it. Definitely made me think. His kind of book like it's your kind of book? But he probably wouldn't have cried a bit at the end, like I did.

He was more of a shame than a guilt type of guy and crying maybe wouldn't have happened. Crying may have made him feel a little embarrassed, a little ashamed at the naked emotion in himself and in a challenging book like Red Shift.

But that Mark had more barriers up. He was the same Mark but probably less vulnerable, especially to himself. This is a good book to read if you like a challenge but also are able to read without those kinds of barriers between yourself and a book and maybe between yourself and who you are. Still, that Mark would have liked it, for sure. Much like Macey and Thomas and Tom, basically only the circumstances are different between this or that Mark. It takes more than a red shift to change a person, or a life.

View all 18 comments. Jul 01, Paul Christensen rated it it was amazing Shelves: novels-and-sagas. This lonely tale deals with non-linear Time, centred round a hill in Cheshire called Mow Cop and three young men linked to it down the centuries or are they reincarnations of the same man? Red Shift is a wonderful yet painful book, like a spiky dead sea urchin on a stony beach, under stars of late autumn.

View 1 comment. Rating: 4. Or is the future Rating: 4. NYRB edition 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. My Review : Why didn't I hear about this back in ? I'd've lapped it right up with happy warbles and gruntled slurps. But what completely baffles me is how anyone could read this unpunctuated marvel of modernism and say, "YA shelves, next!

Teens might get absorbed in the time-travel element, and some goodly percentage of them will like the Cormac McCarthy-esque attributionless dialogue, but the fantasy reader is going away very sorely disappointed.

Yes, there's a goddess, and heaven knows we're up to our hips in angsty teens. Good lord, grow up people! Don't read reviews of books you want to read if you're phobic about it! There are three stories here. All of them take place in a very very tight geographical locus. They are separated by years earliest to middle and years middle to modern. The dialogue is all modern English, and still Alan Garner manages to convey a sense of the temporal location of the story And all the teens are able to experience each other.

I'm not sure what else I can say without giving too much of the game away, so let's cut to the chase: I don't like phauntaisee nawvelles and I'm pretty durned hmmmmm about time travel these post- Outlander days. And this novel, this gem of a McCarthy-writes- The Sound and the Fury -with-Virginia-Woolf novel, hooked me, gaffed me through the gills, landed me in the bottom of the boat and at the very very end exploded my teensy ickle brain-like thing with wowee.

So why aren't all sorts of people warbling their lungs out about it? Same reason I didn't until today: Never heard of it. I picked it up, idly, unsuspectingly, from a shelf in the house With me on how weird that is? See the thing that doesn't fit the picture, namely me smiling? Aug 24, Liam Guilar rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , prose-without-which-etc.

I think it should have more than five stars. I first read this far too many years ago when i was probably the same age as the protagonist, and liked the book for the usual wrong reasons, but I have reread it on a regular basis ever since. For my money he's the best prose writer in English and the most interesting. This book is the hinge in the sequence, moving away from I think it should have more than five stars. This book is the hinge in the sequence, moving away from the fantasy of the earlier books which reached their culmination in 'The Owl Service' which also needs more than five stars towards the apparently difficult, more "adult", 'Thursbitch' and 'Strandloper', and for that reason is a good place to start if you're interested in discovering a great writer.

I think the book suffers critically because it was marketed to the "young adult " market, and the protagonist, at least of the modern section, is a very troubled adolescent. Garner's writing career resists easy definition but that hasn't stopped people pigeon holing him to his detriment. But as more than one critic has pointed out, 'Red Shift' could be regarded as one of the last masterpieces of 20th century modernism and Garner should be seen as a significant figure in 20th century English Prose.

What most readers find difficult about this book, the fact that the story is told in mostly untagged dialogue and shifts between three time periods, is in fact the ultimate compliment Garner can pay his readers. He takes seriously Bunting's "Never explain, your readers are as smart as you are" and presents the story and steps back.

View 2 comments. Oct 27, Forrest rated it really liked it. How hard can it be? Let me start by saying "don't read this book". At least, not yet. Trust me, you're going to need some help here. I most certainly would N "This is a page paperback from the '70s, written for teens. I most certainly would NOT have understood what was going on.

The gentlemen on that podcast did a great job of analyzing both the novel and the television version of Red Shift. Sure, they spoiled it like a renegade piece of shrimp left under the couch for a month, but, honestly, without spoilers, I don't know that I would have understood half of what was going on.