Fishing for amber : a long story /
By: Carson, Ciaran
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Publisher: London ; New York : Granta Books, 2000Description: viii, 360 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1862073716; 9781862073715:.Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- 20th century | Transmutation (Chemistry) -- Fiction | Storytelling -- FictionGenre/Form: Magic realism (Literature)DDC classification: 823.914 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 823.914 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0043492 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-360).
Antipodes -- Berenice -- Clepsydra -- Delphinium -- Ergot -- Foxglove -- Ganymede -- Helicon -- Io -- Jacinth -- Kipper -- Leyden -- Marigold -- Nemesis -- Opium -- Pegasus -- Quince -- Ramification -- Submarine -- Tachygraphy -- Undine -- Veronica -- Whereabouts -- Xerox -- Yarn -- Zoetrope.
This novel weaves Irish fairy tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses and the history of the Dutch golden age into the form of a magic alphabet. Its universal theme is that of transmutation, of the power of art, experience immortalised in narrative.