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The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales

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BfK No. 98 - May 1996

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Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.

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The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales

Ted Hughes
(Faber and Faber)
978-0571175673, RRP £4.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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This is Hughes' third volume of creation stories and the most disappointing. The flair and ingenuity of the two earlier volumes is missing, replaced with convoluted plots and a far less convincing central character. God has become a defeatist, a grumbler - where is the glorious anarchy of Tales of the Early World? The stories tend to be too long. Sheer volume of narrative doesn't convince the reader as much as the taut, ironic humour did in the earlier collections.

Reviewer: 
Val Randall
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