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Sto caricando le informazioni... Graven Images (1982)di Paul Fleischman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I've wanted to read this for years...and finally did. Enjoyed the short stories a great deal. ( ) stories: The Binnacle Boy / Saint Crispin's Follower / The Man of Influence Here are three very different stories with two common threads: one is an element of the supernatural (whether real or imagined); the other is a focus on cast or sculpted figures (hence, Graven Images). "The Binnacle Boy" is a binnacle (or compass casing) in the shape of a boy that comes into port (on a ship whose crew have all mysteriously died), is mounted in the town square, and becomes the receptacle for the townspeople's whispered secrets. "Saint Crispin's Follower" is a shoemaker's apprentice who interprets the movements of a damaged weathervane as instructions from his patron saint, often to comical effect. And "The Man of Influence" is an unsavory, unearthly, and highly unlikely patron who commissions a reluctant but desperate sculptor to carve his likeness in stone. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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