| The Changeling Main Edition Contributor(s): Jenkins, Robin (Author), Marr, Andrew (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1847672388 ISBN-13: 9781847672384 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.35 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charles Forbes, sees an uncanny warmth in his reticence and in his seemingly insolent smile. So he decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family . . . This powerful novel explores one of Jenkins's consistent and most fruitful themes - how goodness and innocence is compromised when faced with the pressures of growing up and becoming part of society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jenkins, Robin: - Author of a number of landmark novels including The Cone Gatherers, The Changeling, Happy for the Child, The Thistle and the Grail and Guests of War, Jenkins is rapidly attaining recognition as one of Scotland's greatest writers. The themes of good and evil, of innocence lost, of fraudulence, cruelty and redemption shine through his work. His novels, shot through with ambiguity, are rarely about what they seem. He published his first book, So Gaily Sings the Lark, at the age of thirty-eight, and by the time of his death in 2005, over thirty of his novels were in print. |
