{"product_id":"9780008477806","title":"Alan Garner - Treacle Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Alan Garner. Themes include Fiction, Literary, Coming of Age, Family Life, Small Town \u0026amp; Rural.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner's] best work' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Spare and allusive... luminous and understated' Rowan Williams, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple' Carolyne Larrington, Tls\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Statesman Book Of The Year * A Tls Book Of The Year * A Guardian Best Fiction Book Of 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013056172406,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780008477806.jpg?v=1780505049","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780008477806","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}