The Guizer by Alan Garner

The Guizer

A Book of Fools

by Alan Garner

Fontana Lions, Collins, 1980
Lightly illustrated with line drawings in text
Paperback

Condition: Good
some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, age toned pages (see photographs)

“Traditionally the fool has been an unwitting speaker of the deepest truths, a creature at once stupid and cunning, destructive and creative.  He is a figure who appears in various guises in folk tales throughout the world: from the Robin Goodfellow of English legend to the Ananse of the negro Spider-stories, from Hare in American Indian mythology to Maui-of-a-thousand-Tricks in the South Seas.”