Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language,he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story,whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger,war and flight,a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.
Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571384457Number of pages: 112Weight: 540 gDimensions: 210 x 211 x 15 mmEdition: Main
Simon Armitage
One of the country's most recognisable poets Simon Armitage has carved out a niche for himself as a wry observer of popular culture and documenter of 21st century British society. Since his first collection Zoom! in 1989 his vibrant Northern vernacular and the informality of his subject matter have been mainstays of British poetry ever since.
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