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| Original Title: | The Stolen Child |
| ISBN: | 0385516169 (ISBN13: 9780385516167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2007) |
Keith Donohue
Hardcover | Pages: 327 pages Rating: 3.72 | 10774 Users | 1403 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Stolen Child |
| Author | : | Keith Donohue |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 327 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2006 by Nan A. Talese |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales |
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Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature. In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry’s life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. But he can’t hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world. The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights.Rating Appertaining To Books The Stolen Child
Ratings: 3.72 From 10774 Users | 1403 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The Stolen Child
I dont disguise that Im a big geek, especially when science fiction is concerned. My Star Wars and Lord of the Rings (and Spiderman and X-Men and Batman and . . .) movie obsessions attest to my geekiness. So it is no surprise to anyone that I spent two or three years as a teenager reading only fantasy fiction. I literally read every fantasy fiction book our local library had on its shelves. It happens to be why the Harry Potter series drives me to the brink of rage: people think those awfulI really enjoy books that are "different" and tell the story well. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue is one of those books. It's the changeling story, a tale that is not new or different at all. Henry Day, a 7 year old boy, runs away from home one day and goes into the woods. He falls asleep and awakens to find himself being kidnapped by a troup of faeries that call him "Aniday". Meanwhile, another child--one who used to be a faery and has now molded his features to match Henry's exactly--goes
An interesting book told in two perspectives that aligns nicely in the end. I could have done without changling sex and all the baby name endearments but thats just personal preference.
Spoilers as always I enjoyed how intertwined the storys were, like with Anaday winding up with McInes compositon book and Henry meeting McInes as an adult. All the characters are very flat, they just live thier lifes with no reasons for anything. If Igel did not want to switch, why did he not just say so and let the next changling go? I despised Beka, and then all of a sudden he stops being a womanizer. Yes, two of the four girls disapeared but he just stuck with Onions. No reasons. No part of
4.5 stars There seem to be a lot of different types of fantasy within the genre and not everything works for me. This one, based on a poem by Yeats and the changeling myth, certainly did.This book was hauntingly beautiful. Thats the first thing I want to say about it. The writing flowed poetically with some deeply moving passages. The story moved slowly and initially felt a bit sluggish. Although the pacing never increased, the rhythm felt appropriate as I continued on.I was impressed with the
Feeling ignored and tired of his infant twin sisters getting all of the attention, young Henry Day decided to run away one day in the 1940's. Henry never returned home; in fact, he ceased to exist, but no one noticed. Why? Henry was abducted by the hobgoblins who lived in the nearby forest and a changeling was left in his place--a changeling who had been studying everything about Henry and knew how to mimic him so perfectly that no one could tell the difference. The Stolen Child follows the boy
It's probably not really the book's fault -- the writing wasn't bad, even if it didn't do a good job of grabbing me -- but I just couldn't get into this one. I kept it on my shelf at work for months, but always found something else to read instead. Now that I'm really into the book I'm currently reading on my lunch breaks and have another queued up, I figured it was time to throw in the towel on this one.I feel a little guilty about it, and am not sure I gave it a really fair chance. If anyone
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