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Marfan

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349518-VF45
Titel	Marfan
Auteur	Reading, Peter
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Newcastle : Bloodaxe Books
Jaar van uitgave	2000
ISBN10	1852245166
ISBN13	9781852245160
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, b/w illustrations, unpaged, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Grief, decline and exile have been Peter Reading's persistent themes through twenty books written over thirty years. After staring into death's Medusa face in his recent work, the scourge of Britain's sham uncaring society sentences himself to a year's exile deep in the empty heart of Texas in Marfan. This richly observed, unsparingly caustic book-length poem presents an unflattering but grimly affectionate portrait of the hick town of Marfa (pop. 2,474). Here be cowpokes and Bible bashers, crazies in Chevies, trigger-happy Border Patrolmen and gabby old-timers in Ray's Bar, all intent on bending Reading's ear. And he takes it all in, just as the slaughtered Indians and despised 'Spiks' have done, but this suspicious stranger answers back. In blackly ironic, highly sophisticated poetry cr... (Lees verder)eated in their own language, out of their own drawling mouths, Reading's rednecks damn themselves in this latter-day divine comedy set in an arid all-American wasteland.
Pagina's	64
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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