Daniel Curley (1918–1988)
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I really enjoyed Billy Beg and His Bull, which I would classify as a fairy-tale novel - think Robin McKinley's Beauty, which retells the classic French tale of Beauty and the Beast, or Edith Pattou's East, which takes East of the Sun, West of the Moon as its starting point - a work of fantasy that is closely modeled on an older literary story, or traditional folktale. The language here is clever and quite amusing, and I was pleased to see that Curley used "runs" in his text: "They knocked the hard ground into soft and the soft ground into hard, the rocks into spring wells and the spring wells into rocks." Many brief references are made to others figures from Irish mythology and folklore, from the Morrigan to the the Salmon of Knowledge, as Curley plays around with his source material. Definitely not a strict retelling of this tale, but a entertaining, well-written one, for sure! Recommended to young fantasy fans with a taste for Irish themes.… (mehr)