Haydn Middleton
Autor(a) de Grimm's Last Fairytale
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Haydn Middleton
Project X Origins: Brown Book Band, Oxford Level 11: Heroes and Villains: Heroes or Villains? (2014) 5 exemplares
Project X Origins: Brown Book Band, Oxford Level 11: Strong Defences: Strong Defences (2014) 3 exemplares
O Cotidiano Europeu no Século XVI 2 exemplares
Bragðarefurinn 2 exemplares
Project X Origins: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 12: Dilemmas and Decisions: It's Your Call (2014) 1 exemplar
Myths and legends 1 exemplar
Dead Adventurous: BC NF Red (KS2) B/5B Dead Adventurous NF Red (KS2) B/5b (BUG CLUB) (2011) 1 exemplar
Project X Code: The Joust 1 exemplar
Project X Origins: White Book Band, Oxford Level 10: Working as a Team: The Beautiful Team (2014) 1 exemplar
Vita sedic.mo secolo (_La) 1 exemplar
Cleoplatra 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Winter's Tales: New Series No 6 (International Anthology of Stories by New & Established Auth) (1990) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1955
- Sexo
- male
- Ocupações
- children's book author
- Agente
- Christopher Little Literary Agency
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Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 125
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 988
- Popularidade
- #26,060
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 8
- ISBN
- 249
- Línguas
- 4
It's a dusky wash of sensations, unclear outlines, uncertain distances, plenty of room for the subconscious mind to wander and fill in.
It begins like a science fiction post-apocalyptic scenario: boats of young people whose memories have seemingly been wiped clean, now emerging from what they call "the blackout", traveling from one island to the next along an apparently unending string of islands, each given a number but also creating their own names, finding all their needs taken care of by unseen hands at each stop/barracks along the way inside lockers labeled with their numbers, mysteriously viewed with some unsettled combination of trepidation/unease/hope/dependence by islanders they come across.
One of them with the name Reger Bede is left behind at an island, where he ages for decades and fills notebooks with his writing (nod to Saint Bede, I presume) as the island society apparently grows all around him. We're not quite sure what his purpose is, or indeed that of the entire group he set out with, what he calls his "cohort". Some themes have settled around him/them but what exactly they mean is not told. They're connected however to burgeoning light, and hearts, and time, and turning records.
Eventually officials take him away for a "time out", a debriefing. You think the author is about to spell out for you what exactly is going on? No, no way. The officials are there to listen to Bede, not give us any information. But, but, but. I seize on this as a clue:
Ah, the idealism of youth. Optimistic that they can remake the world in a more just fashion. Generation after generation rising up anew with that hope, which, [looks around] never quite comes to pass... oh, hey...
Whether I'm on or off base with that interpretation of what this novel is "about", I really enjoyed the language and uniqueness of this novel, and the unresolved plot details intrigued me rather than left me frustrated, which I could definitely see the other reaction being.… (mais)