Sunderland - Softcover

Barris, Ken; Cope, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1431410799 ISBN 13: 9781431410798

Verlag: Jacana Media, 2014

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Críticas:

'Ken Barris's skilled writing... moulds the ordinary into something extraordinary and impresses upon the audi- ence a range of emotions that linger long after the last line has been read.' - The Sunday Independent;'[Michael Cope's] memoir is as complex and beautiful as the richest jacquard cloth, its tones and hues catching and scattering the light.' - Liz Winters, The Write Co;'Michael Cope [...] writes with superb control and sensitivity both to outer and inner worlds... It is hard to do justice to the richness of this intelligent, moving, panoramic book.' - David Pike, Natal Mercury.

Reseña del editor:

"Think [Nabokov's] Pale Fire, perhaps, or [Byatt's] Possession, but in a contemporary Afropolitan context." Jenefer Shute, author of Life-size, sex crimes and user ID. Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book-form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghost-writer, but the project becomes literary detective-work he cannot give up. Introduce De Villiers' beautiful daughter Taryn, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Art's struggle to make sense of De Villiers' fragmented and disordered text, and sections - scenes, notes, outlines - from that very work (also entitled 'Sunderland'). A novel of (literary) ideas as much as of character, this fascinating collaboration by two of South Africa's finest wranglers of words still comes to a literal crescendo; a finely tuned masterpiece to read in one sitting.

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• Verlag: Jacana Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1431410799
• ISBN 13: 9781431410798
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208