Nonsense - Hardcover

Reid, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571281281 ISBN 13: 9780571281282

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2012

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Críticas:

'Christopher Reid's Nonsense was, as usual with this exceptionally gifted poet, a reliable source of pleasure: grave, deft, subtle, oblique, surprising, touching. No other poetry this year came anywhere near it.' --Craig Raine, Observer Books of the Year

'Christopher Reid shows in Nonsense that he is the modern master of the long narrative poem at once wryly amusing and moving.' --William Boyd, Guardian Books of the Year

'As good as his A Scattering and as funny as The Song of Lunch. There is now no English poet whose work I look forward to as much as Reid's: he has a voice purely his own, and a mastery of prosody. Whether he is making you laugh or smile or shudder, what he writes is the real thing.' --Claire Tomalin, Guardian Books of the Year

Reseña del editor:

Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California. He is a mordant observer, alert to the anomie of modern displacement - taxis, lifts, airports, lounges, hotel rooms - whose thin air seems at one with the loose change of widowerhood, the having nowhere really to go. But adventure lies ahead, and sunshine, and Winterthorn is debonair if undeceived about the deceptions of grief. His strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571281281
• ISBN 13: 9780571281282
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128