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Adam Mars-Jones · Selective Luddism: On Alan Garner

Summary by lrb.co.uk
Children’s books revisited in later life may disappoint, but they are immune to the embarrassment associated with outgrown toys. Even if their colours have faded, they expanded the world in a way toys can’t match. What holds good is the atmosphere, in sentences like ‘The light of the elves’ swords in the damp air made a nimbus which was reflected coldly in the leather of the rhododendron leaves.’
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lrb.co.uk broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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