Item
What Is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young
- Title
- en_US What Is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dustjacket (book cover)
- en_US First US edition
- Ted Hughes
- Creator
- en_US Hughes, Ted See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Lloyd, R. J.
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:29Z
- Good copy: 10/24
- en_US 1984
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:29Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1984
- Abstract
- en_US I have read the first 30 pages of this landscape book with monochrome drawings by R.J. Lloyd. I would say it is an extended fantasy rather than a fable. The fantasy is that God brings God's curious son to earth to hear the truth that is uttered only in sleep. "'We will speak to the people,' said God. 'We will ask them a few simple questions. Then you shall hear. In their sleep, they will say what they truly know. That is another odd thing about mankind. When they are awake, they are deepest asleep. When they are asleep, they are widest awake. Strange creatures!'" (9) Summoned in their sleep, the inhabitants one by one describe an animal they know. Prose and poetry mix for a kind of sustained enchantment. 11" x 9". 127 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 13643 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Harper & Row
- en_US New York
- Subject
- Ted Hughes See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books