Author: ALMOND, DAVID (1951- )
Title: Secret heart / David Almond
Description: London : Hodder Children's 2002. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 202 pages; Physical description: 202 p. ; 23 cm. Review: 'As readers will expect from David Almond. there's a sense of inhabiting a strange. vivid world that exists alongside the familiar. and an evocation of wonder in everyday things as well as in the extraordinary. This is a powerful addition to his highly distinctive works.' -- TES. Summary: Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth. a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend. Stanny. insists that Joe must toughen up. become a survivor - and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle Joff will do the trick. Into Joe's unhappy world comes Hackenschmidt's Circus. and with it the strangely familiar Corinna. She tells Joe. 'In the circus there is a secret heart ' - a place of contained wildness where the barriers between the human and animal world are fluid. And indeed. Joe's dreams are already stalked by a tiger. so real that his skin and its pelt begin to feel as one. Subjects: Circus - Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Children's dreams - Juvenile fiction. Boys - Psychology - Juvenile fiction.Weight in Kg appr.:

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