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Item Details
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THE FIGURE IN THE DISTANCE
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| By: |
Erica Pomerans, Otto de Kat, Arnold J. Pomerans (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860468829 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860468827 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 2002 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
The narrator of this novel is a lifelong traveller, but wherever he stays, the impressions he gets and the people he sees remind him of figures from long ago - a lost friend, a former lover, and his father. He moves about the world as if he is a ghost, both comforted and tortured by his memories. |
| Synopsis: |
Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the century - the Six Day War, the Prague Spring - and collected friends, lovers, and passions every step of the way. As he ages, the memories of his past grow sharper, the events of his childhood more vivid - so vivid, in fact, that his present life recedes into oblivion. He inhabits a world of ghosts and shadows and absence. Throughout his perambulations of time and space, one absence always looms largest: that of his father. The figure of his dead father materializes again and again, drawing the narrator back into the past, reviving the people and places of long ago. The Figure in the Distance is a hypnotic novel, told with a cinematic cross-cutting that suspends the reader in the cobwebs of memory and longing that haunt the narrator. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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