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Tanglewreck
by Jeanette Winterson
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ISBN13: 9781582349190 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Something frightening is happening with time.
One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs. Rokabye, and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two sinister figures come looking for it, she knows instinctively that she must guard it with her life.
Review:
"In her first book for young adults, Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit) delivers a romp through space and time with an intrepid 11-year-old heroine, Silver Rivers. The story opens with 'the first of the Time Tornadoes,' which merges a contemporary school bus and a pharaoh's chariots on the River Thames. It then moves to the 16th-century rambling house that had been Silver's family home before her parents and sister disappeared four years ago. Now Silver lives there with her greedy 'aunt' who is helping an ageless and sinister alchemist, Abel Darkwater, find the lost Timekeeper. A prophecy states that this clock, to be found by the Child with the Golden Face, controls the most precious commodity of all — time. Silver discovers she is that Child, with the help of the underground people called 'Throwbacks,' who help her travel across the universe and back. Winterson playfully peppers this journey with references to John Harrison, the Einstein Line, Schrdinger's cat, quantum physics, Black Holes and Egyptian deities. In Silver's quest to fulfill the prophecy, she teams up with her special Throwback friend, Gabriel, to take on Darkwater and his nemesis Regalia Mason, leader of a powerful corporation for centuries into the past and future. While the text may be somewhat fragmented and overworked in places, the sheer exhilaration of the adventure and the many fascinating historical and scientific allusions will keep readers engrossed through to the satisfying conclusion. Ages 8-12." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Synopsis:
Acclaimed, award-winning author Winterson ("The King of Capri") delivers a sophisticated, gothic tale about an 11-year-old girl who discovers that her house, called Tanglewreck, is somehow at the center of mysterious time warps.
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson is a Whitbread Prize–winning author of books for adults, including Lighthousekeeping and Written on the Body, as well as The King of Capri. This is her first novel for young adults. She lives in London.
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crowyhead, February 4, 2008 (view all comments by crowyhead)
This children's fantasy started out strong, but peters out a bit in the end. The basic idea is that all over the world, people are being caught up in "time storms" that sweep them out of their appropriate time and scatter them through time and space. Somehow connected to these time warps is a rambling old house called Tanglewreck, where an young girl named Silver lives with her malicious old aunt, Mrs. Rockaby.
There are some really fantastically witty elements to this book, my favorite possibly being Mrs. Rockaby's unusual accomplice in evil, a large malevolent rabbit named Bigamist. Unfortunately, by the end of the book, all of the plotlines are in a somewhat incomprehensible tangle. I don't know if Winterson intends to write a sequel; the book certainly leaves things open for one, and that could help straighten some of the plot elements out. Overall, though, I can only recommend this with reservations, and I don't think it works particularly well for the age group it's intended for.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781582349190
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Subject:
- Action & Adventure
- Subject:
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Subject:
- Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
- Subject:
- Time travel
- Subject:
- Time
- Subject:
- Action & Adventure - General
- Edition Description:
- Us
- Publication Date:
- July 2006
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 414
- Dimensions:
- 7.96x6.32x1.35 in. 1.12 lbs.
- Age Level:
- 08-12
