Hansel & Gretel : A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Name: Hansel & Gretel : A Nightmare in Eight Scenes
Brand: Simon Armitage
SKU: 9780571384457
Price: 12.37 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Simon Armitage

Title:

Author:

Simon Armitage

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

112 pages

Publisher:

Faber and Faber Ltd

ISBN-13:

9780571384457

EAN:

9780571384457

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

658

Dimensions (mm):

210 x 212 x 16

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£12.37

9 copies in stock

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Description

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.