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Brief Lives - Hardcover

Meredith, Christopher

 
9781781724521: Brief Lives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1781724520 ISBN 13: 9781781724521
Verlag: Poetry Wales Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

From the nightmarish first story set in the South China Sea in 1946 to the final piece, set nowhere at the end of time, Brief Lives demonstrates in a short compass a huge range in technique and milieu and a unity of theme and sensibility. It opens naturalistically but is distinctly non-realist by the close. We meet an ex-collier in 1950 anguishing over whether to return to the pit, a young mother in the early 1960s quietly shepherding those around her through a bleak Christmas day, an industrial chemist in this century plunged into vortices of memories that cause him to question his grasp of the world, and more.

Meredith’s fiction has been marked by its willingness to push at literary boundaries, and Brief Lives is no exception: it is an intense distillation of Meredith’s abiding concerns to explore how memory shapes the present and the present shapes memory, the interplay between beautifully realised individual lives and the wider historical process, and the paradox of simultaneous human isolation and community.

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Christopher Meredith is the author of Shifts (1988), Griffri (1991) and Sidereal Time (1998). He is also the author of three poetry collections, numerous articles and a book for children in English and Welsh. Meredith's books have consistently attracted high-profile reviews in the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. A professor of creative writing at the University of Glamorgan, he has given talks, readings and lectures worldwide.

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Verlag
Poetry Wales Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781724520
ISBN 13 
9781781724521
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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