Clockwork or All Wound Up

Resumen del libro

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . .

. It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim.

He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished.

Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . .

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Philip Pullmanx{0026}lt;/b . Norwich, Inglaterra. 19 de octubre de 1946. Estudió en el Exeter College de Oxford. Tras una novela de ciencia ficción publicada en 1978 decidió especializarse por fin en la novela infantil y juvenil mientras trabajaba para el Westminster College de Oxford. Su primer gran éxito le llegó en 1995 con la publicación de x{0026}lt;b x{0026}lt;i La brújula doradax{0026}lt;/i x{0026}lt;/b , primera parte de una serie de gran éxito en todo el mundo y que fue llevada al cine.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p A lo largo de su carrera, x{0026}lt;b Pullmanx{0026}lt;/b ha recibido numerosos premios, como la x{0026}lt;b Carnegie Medalx{0026}lt;/b , el x{0026}lt;b Premio Guardian de Literatura Infantil y Juvenilx{0026}lt;/b o el x{0026}lt;b Memorial Astrid Lindgrenx{0026}lt;/b .x{0026}lt;/p