Life's Little Fable

Title

en_US Life's Little Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Creator

en_US Cornwell, Patricia Daniels See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gibson, Barbara Leonard

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:06Z

en_US 2005-03

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US This landscape-formatted book presents Jarrod, who lives in the land of the pond and flies through the air, since this land does not know gravity or shadows. Jarrod is curious about the pond, and his mother warns him to stay away from it. Jarrod's father, it turns out, listened to the seductive whispers of the pond and entered it, never to return. One Saturday, the god of the pond makes promises to entice Jarrod to jump in. The pond eventually promises Jarrod that he will be like him, a god. As Jarrod approaches the water, crocodile jaws emerge from it. Jarrod jams his walking-stick between the jaws to save himself. Jarrod rejects him, and the crocodile never emerges again from the pond. Rather people are able to swim in it. The birds that had egged Jarrod on become friends with people. This is the Garden of Eden and Jesus' temptations in the desert all over again.

Identifier

en_US 0399233164

en_US 5395 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80936

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US G.P. Putnam's Sons

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ7.C81647 Lf 1999 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole