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Corbenic
By Fisher, Catherine
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06072-470-2 978-0-06072-471-9
- Publisher
- Greenwillow
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
Gr 7-Up Seventeen-year-old Cal abandons his alcoholic, schizophrenic mother and shabby English town. On the train to his uncles house in a posh suburb, he gets off at Corbenic, which he later learns is nonexistent. He makes his way to the court of the crippled Fisher King, who knows Cal is really Percival, the last hope to restore the kings wasteland to its former glory. When the teenager fails to identify a vision of the Holy Grail, he is banished back to modern England. Then, as the legend goes, he se...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2006
Playing with our perceptions, Fisher purposefully blurs the line between supernatural occurrences and mental illness in this modern-day retelling of "The Fisher King." On the train to live with his uncle, away from his mentally unstable mother, Cal gets off at the wrong stop and stumbles into a sumptuous castle where the ailing king shows him a Grail procession. Afraid that he's developing his mother's schizophrenia, Cal fails to ask a single question and i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
