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Item Details
| Title:
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VERY MAN
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| By: |
Charles Boyle |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£6.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0856359556 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780856359552 |
| Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 April, 1993 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
This collection of Charles Boyle''s poetry features such diverse characters and situations as Yuri Gagarin and a silent film star, D.H. Lawrence and deep-frozen fish, and Stendhal in a Paris heatwave. Boyle''s previous collections include "Affinities" (1977) and "Sleeping Rough" (1987). |
| Synopsis: |
As a street beggar (Tamerlaine?) in the opening poem warns, a life is no simple narrative with "a beginning, middle and end". "The Very Man", Charles Boyle's fourth Carcanet collection, is rich in unexpected digressions and conjunctions: Yuri Gagarin and a star of the silent screen, American films and the Eastern Bloc revolutions, D.H. Lawrence and deep-frozen fish, religion and a self-assembly bookshelves kit, Masai initiation rites and suburban adultery, 1812 and office afternoons. Here too are Stendhal in a Paris heat-wave, Muybridge murdering his wife's lover and other portrait sketches that, for all their clarity and cunning, often refuse to distinguish between real and invented lives. |
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Returnable |
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