Head and Tales by Susan Price
Very Good condition used 1993 First Edition Hardback with intact unclipped Dust Jacket.
Published by Faber and Faber, London.
Publication numberline: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.
Author: Susan Price.
Jacket Illustration by Chris Coady.
ISBN: 0571169147.
Approx dims book: 205mm h x 135mm w x 16mm d.
Intact clean glossy condition un-clipped dust jacket covers with slight creasing, rubbing to edges and corners. Intact DJ spine with slight creasing top and bottom. Dust Jacket over very good condition blue boards with white title lettering to spine. 140 clean tanned pages of English text, no inscriptions. Page ends tanned. Image shown is actual book for sale.
Synopsis: In ancient myth, the severed head stood for Wisdom. In story after story, the severed head speaks and gives counsel.
A sick man, a story-teller, dying in a work-camp, fears for the children he’ll leave behind in a harsh world.
His last wish is that his head be cut off, and carried by his children on their long walk home to the grandmother they have never seen.
When they are tired, despairing, threatened, the head opens its eyes – and tells stories. Words have power. Stories can be spells.