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| A Bag of Moonshine | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Garner
Creator: Patrick James Lynch
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 936276
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
ISBN: 0001844032
EAN: 9780001844032
ASIN: 0001844032
Publication Date: February 5, 1986
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Hore than a collection of stories August 13, 2000
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Here is the Voice in the Shadow, as Alan Garner calls it, in all its glory. Most cultures in the Western world have lost the oral process whereby wisdom and teachings are handed down from teacher to pupil through the use of seemingly obtuse and nonsensical tales, which would have to be understood at all levels before the student could be taken to the next stage of teaching. As a method of education it was intensive, sly and invaluable. Being a teacher was, obviously, a great responsibility, and Alan Garner was lucky enough to grow at the knees of a number of people who fulfilled this role within his own community. He was unlucky enough to be the first of the 1944 Education Act generation, whose scholarship took him away from this source. So his books have all, in their own way, attempted to keep these stories alive for the nation, and maybe kick off the process of learning for a new generation. This book is the baldest attempt at retelling the tales he himself learnt as a child. Every nuance, every pause, every exclamation could have been uttered by one of these bucolic figures sitting at the Garner table. It's like stepping into another world.
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