Pig Boy : a retelling of Culhwch and Olwen from the Mabinogion
Harvey, Michael (Storyteller)2023
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Cursed with love by his step-mother, Culhwch (Pig Boy) is condemned to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant - pitiless, violent and huge. So begins the quest - first to the court of King Arthur to win his support for the quest. In this earliest and earthiest of Arthurian tales, we are in the grip of the Otherworld, where landscape, nature and doing what we can to make a better future, no matter how impossible that might seem, are everything. Making a future despite the odds and despite the terrible and debilitating pain that afflicts Pig Boy as part of his love of Olwen will see him tested him again and again as he faces each task along the quest, the last to hunt the Great Wild Boar and seize the golden comb and scissors from between its ears so that the Hawthorn Giant can have his beard trimmed and hair combed for his daughter's wedding.
Main title:
Pig Boy : a retelling of Culhwch and Olwen from the Mabinogion / Michael Harvey.
Author:
Harvey, Michael (Storyteller), author
Imprint:
Birmingham : Leaf by Leaf, [2023]©2023
Collation:
344 pages ; 20 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9781788649728 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
2410637
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