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Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

Door Iain Sinclair

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#349043-VE37
Titel
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'
Auteur
Sinclair, Iain
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Hamish Hamilton
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0241142180
ISBN13
9780241142189
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare), the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts, both visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness, sanity and the nature of the poet's muse. Brilliant ... amusing, alarming and poign
... (Lees verder)ant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent . (Robert Macfarlane, Times Literary Supplement). A sensitive,beautifully rendered portrait ... a feast, a riddle, a slowly unravelling conundrum ... a love-letter to British Romanticism . (Independent). Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels and psychogeographies, pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain . (J. G. Ballard, Observer). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire, and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
Pagina's
384
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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