Max Porter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber...
2) Shy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A troubled teenage boy wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future, as he escapes Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of "A Very Determined Young Man." The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing. Carey's pencil fills the page with the marvelous and intriguing, picturing people, characters, animals, monsters,...