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Alan Garner's Treacle Walker and writing outside the constraints of time

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par Anna Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Media Foundation and Creative Writing, University of East London

When the 2022 Booker shortlist was announced in September, 87-year-old Alan Garner was highlighted as the oldest-ever shortlisted author. On the day the prize was announced he turned 88. That said, his nominated novel, Treacle Walker, begins with a quote from Italian quantum physicist, Carlo Rovelli: “Time is ignorance.”

Age is, of course, an aspect of time. But…

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