The Hollowing - Brossura

Holdstock, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0586212930 ISBN 13: 9780586212936

Casa editrice: Collins, 1994

Riassunto

Simon Bradley, a highly imaginative child, brain-damaged after a bizarre attack, vanishes from home and is drawn into the green heart of Ryhope Wood. There his dreams continue to populate the wood with "mythagos", warped, dangerous hero figures, threatening all those who come in search of the boy.

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L'autore:

Robert Holdstock spent his childhood between the bleak Romney Marsh and the dense woods of the Kentish heartlands, landscapes that inspire much of his work to this day. His writing has received great acclaim and won many awards, including the World Fantasy Award for ‘Mythago Wood’.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Alex Bradley, a highly imaginative child left brain-damaged after a bizarre attack, vanishes one day from his home. Months later a body is found on the edge of Ryhope Wood wherein live the mythagos-phantoms generated over time by our dreams and nightmares.

Alex has in fact been absorbed by the wood, drawn through a ‘hollowing’ into its green heart. There his dreams will continue to populate the wood with his particular mythagos. But like Alex, they too are damaged: the great heroes he conjures are warped, incomplete and dangerous. Savage and lost, they are compelled to seek their creator.

The havoc they wreak threatens those who search for Alex, including his father, Richard. In the end, it will threaten the very existence of the wood itself and of its natural mythagos.

“Time stopping stuff from one of Britain’s best ... a myth-maker of originality”
THE TIMES

“'The Hollowing' is Holdstock’s richest and most skilful exercise in fiction to date”
VECTOR

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0586212930
• ISBN 13: 9780586212936
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320