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Bezig met laden... Graven Images (1982)door Paul Fleischman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I've wanted to read this for years...and finally did. Enjoyed the short stories a great deal. ( ) stories: The Binnacle Boy / Saint Crispin's Follower / The Man of Influence Here are three very different stories with two common threads: one is an element of the supernatural (whether real or imagined); the other is a focus on cast or sculpted figures (hence, Graven Images). "The Binnacle Boy" is a binnacle (or compass casing) in the shape of a boy that comes into port (on a ship whose crew have all mysteriously died), is mounted in the town square, and becomes the receptacle for the townspeople's whispered secrets. "Saint Crispin's Follower" is a shoemaker's apprentice who interprets the movements of a damaged weathervane as instructions from his patron saint, often to comical effect. And "The Man of Influence" is an unsavory, unearthly, and highly unlikely patron who commissions a reluctant but desperate sculptor to carve his likeness in stone. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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