![]() ![]() ![]() I had vague memories of reading Brisingamen when I was very young. ![]() Not that praise from adults is lacking the fiftieth-anniversary republication of Brisingamen contained testimonials from Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, and Susan Cooper. He’s said that he’s never written specifically for children, but for whatever reason children seem to respond more directly to his work than adults. In the interim, Garner’s published fairy tale collections and several non-fantasy novels. The first two books in the series came out in the early 1960s, so this really has been some time in coming. Why did it take so long for Boneland to gestate? All I can say is that it took as long as it took.” The links to the book-not-written had become subliminal cliffhangers. There are nuggets in the text that hint of unfinished business. The lack of the third book, I discovered, gave the readers of the first two a sense of urgency. His next novel, Boneland, to be published this August, will complete the trilogy he’d always envisioned. In mid-March the news emerged that writer Alan Garner was returning to the storylines of his first two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath. ![]()
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