Red Shift Summary
Alan Garner

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Red Shift Summary

Alan Garner's Red Shift deals honestly with many of the problems of modern youth: love and sex, parental conflicts, and alienation from other people and even from the world. It is also a highly creative, experimental book which uses history and myth to cast light on everyday life.

The novel is difficult and disturbing because it places scenes from different centuries next to each other without explanation, portrays violent emotions, and projects a...

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About the Author

Setting

Social Sensitivity

Literary Qualities

Themes and Characters

Adaptations

Topics for Discussion

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Alan Garner Biographies (3)

Alan Garner

4,261 words, approx. 15 pages

When Alan Garner was a child, he almost died three times. A very sickly boy, he suffered variously from spinal and cerebral meningitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, and diphtheria, at times so ill that he cou... Read more

Alan Garner

6,745 words, approx. 23 pages

Alan Garner has become, through a relatively modest output, one of the most important writers for children since 1960. His work is carefully crafted, economic, and precise. His early works-- The Weird... Read more

Alan Garner

3,869 words, approx. 13 pages

In 1968 Alan Garner, defending his focus on the adolescent audience, asserted in "A Bit More Practice" that "This group of people is the most important of all, and selfishly, it makes the best audienc... Read more

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