The Sound of Paint Drying - Hardcover

Hegley, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0413731707 ISBN 13: 9780413731708

Verlag: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Hegley John

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Críticas:

Paintbrushes are 'hairy sticks' and a croissant is 'curved'. The 'curved' croissant is well observed and economical but poetically nothing special. The 'hairy sticks', however, is definitely John Hegley. And you don't read his new book for long before you notice that you are reading about dogs, again. Dog, Hegley's last collection, sold 10,000 copies in hardback, which isn't at all bad for a poetry book. He is that rare thing, a bestselling poet, and therefore one of the few poets presently sure of a place not just on the shelves but face out in 'bestsellers' or piled high on a table. He is also a poet you laugh at, usually out loud, so that makes him even more unusual. This new book combines poetry and family memoir. His readership will not be disappointed.

Reseña del editor:

This collection brings together many of John Hegley's trademark themes - dogs, glasses, Luton - and joins them with a moving and humorous series of meditations, poems and stories on the parent-child relationship; from John's response to his father to John's daughter's response to himself.

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• Verlag: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0413731707
• ISBN 13: 9780413731708
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144