Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales Ted Hughes

Name: Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales By Ted Hughes
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Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

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Following "How the Whale Became" and "Tales of Early World", this third volume contains ten further Creation Tales. Sophisticated storytelling and an irresistible energy combine in this collection, full of dark comedy.

Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales Summary

Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales: And Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

In this third volume of creation stories by Ted Hughes, God is still hard at work fashioning his creatures, breathing life into his clay. He has some triumphant successes but as always there are mistakes, and he has to keep his wits about him when the more tiresome inventions need conning into being something else. He is a brilliant, mischievous and wily God, brought to life himself in these mesmerizing tales by a master storyteller.

About Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe

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Sku

GOR006659689

ISBN 13

9780571175673

ISBN 10

0571175678

Title

Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales: And Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

Author

Ted Hughes

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

1996-02-05

Number of pages

196

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us