{"product_id":"9781448162864","title":"The Voice That Thunders","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist.  This collection, taken form the work of more that twenty years, explores an enviable range of scholarly interests: archaeology, myth, language, education, philosophy, the spiritual quest, mental health, literature, music and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also serves as a poetic autobiography of one of England's best-loved but least public writers.  He hears himself declared dead at the age of six; he draws on the deep vein of a rural working-class childhood in a family of craftsmen who instilled the passion for excellence and for innovation and humour. The disciplines he learnt as a Classicist give a shape and clarity to that passion in this richly various book that would have fascinated his forebears, whose work and lives are also celebrated here.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis most unusual, most candid, most vivid picture of an English family and its home, its country's history, is also a devastating revelation of a writer's own life.  Alan Garner's account of his mental illness will become a classic, and each strand of the book will be a source of fascination to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of an Alan Garner story, as also to all who concern themselves with the craft of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128396595440,"sku":"9781448162864","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448162864_p0.jpg?v=1763827652","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448162864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}