Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world. Moving from a realistic setting in small-town America deep into the forest of humankind’s most basic desires and fears, this remarkable novel is a haunting /5(3). As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child /5(75). Inspired by a W.B. Yeats poem in which fairies “tempt a child from home to the waters and the wild,” Keith Donohue’s novel, The Stolen Child, takes as its premise the idea that the legendary practice of replacing children with goblin changelings is alive and well in s small-town America. After the switch happens early in the story, the novel follows the lives both of the boy forced to become one .
"The Stolen Child" was a poem about changelings written by William Butler Yeats in ; now, this novel by the same name expands on the theme in an enchanting way. Keith Donohue's debut immediately intrigues the reader with the tale of Henry Day, a seven-year-old boy kidnapped by a band of forest. www.doorway.ru: THE STOLEN CHILD: First edition, first printing, hardcover. pages. Fine unread in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. Author's acclaimed debut novel.- a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. SIGNED by author on title page. Stolen Child, Paperback by Donohue, Keith, ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US Stolen from his family by changelings, Henry Day is given the name "Aniday" by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music.
The Stolen Child is Keith Donohue's first novel. He lives in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. and was, for many years, a speechwriter at the National Endowment for the Arts. The Stolen Child is inspired by the poem of the same name by W.B. Yeats (bio). Yeats first published The Stolen Child in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (), the volume of poetry that established his reputation. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world. Moving from a realistic setting in small-town America deep into the forest of humankind’s most basic desires and fears, this remarkable novel is a haunting. Narrated in the alternating voices of Henry Day and his double, THE STOLEN CHILD is a classic tale of the search for identity and leaving childhood. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue creates a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights.
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