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The Dream-Time
by Henry Treece
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Crookleg, also known as Twilight, is physically unsuited to the warrior role expected by his people but possesses an exceptional ability to observe and draw animals. His art gives form to the dream world through which the community understands hunting, danger and memory. It also makes him an outsider when strength and obedience are valued above imagination.
Contact with other groups brings migration, rivalry and the threat of organised violence. Treece uses the boy’s development to contrast making images with making war, asking whether a society can recognise forms of courage that do not depend on killing. The novel closes his sequence of historical fiction for young readers with a compassionate reconstruction of prehistoric life.
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