169138Half a Creature from the Seahttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/half-a-creature-from-the-sea/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1614723/71539118-6635-48f5-b86c-615f08026760.jpg?v=638338475057400000184184MXNBolinda Publishing Pty LtdInStock/Audiolibros/In this collection of short stories, David Almond takes a series of ordinary lives and makes them extraordinary. A poltergeist is causing havoc in Joe Quinns house. Slogs dad comes back from the dead to pay his son a visit. God even makes an appearance at the bottom of Cathleen Kellys garden. These are tales where the everyday becomes touched with magic and the challenges of childhood take on the quality of dreams. The eight stories gathered together in Half a Creature from the Sea are all set in the North East of England where the author grew up. His love of Tyneside oozes out of every page, and it is his familiarity with the region that makes his writing so powerfully personal. Each tale begins with an autobiographical introduction explaining how the stories came to be written. These illuminating additions offer a fascinating insight into the art of story telling....170969Half a Creature from the Sea184184https://www.gandhi.com.mx/half-a-creature-from-the-sea/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1614723/71539118-6635-48f5-b86c-615f08026760.jpg?v=638338475057400000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20149781486245406_W3siaWQiOiJmOWYwZjU1ZS02M2QxLTQzNDUtYmU5Zi1mNWY3NThlNmVhZjAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE4MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6MTgwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9781486245406_It features coming of age stories on the theme of closeness to home, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. Stories include: "The Missing Link", "Joe Quinn's Poltergeist", "Harry Miller's Run", "Slog's Dad", "Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads", "Mary Malone", "Half a Creature from the Sea", and, "When God Came to Kathleen's Garden". David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world – but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."(*_*)9781486245406_In this collection of short stories, David Almond takes a series of ordinary lives and makes them extraordinary. A poltergeist is causing havoc in Joe Quinns house. Slogs dad comes back from the dead to pay his son a visit. God even makes an appearance at the bottom of Cathleen Kellys garden. These are tales where the everyday becomes touched with magic and the challenges of childhood take on the quality of dreams. The eight stories gathered together in Half a Creature from the Sea are all set in the North East of England where the author grew up. His love of Tyneside oozes out of every page, and it is his familiarity with the region that makes his writing so powerfully personal. Each tale begins with an autobiographical introduction explaining how the stories came to be written. These illuminating additions offer a fascinating insight into the art of story telling....9781486245406_Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltdaudiolibro_f6edbec8-4682-3aa5-803a-1073d78819a7_9781486245406;9781486245406_9781486245406David AlmondInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd