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Adam Foulds - BROKEN WORD - 9780224084444 - KEX0303664
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BROKEN WORD

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Description for BROKEN WORD Paperback. Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. This poetic sequence illuminates a period in British colonial history. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102. Very good copy .Poetry

Set in the 1950s, The Broken Word is an extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates a dark, terrifying period in British colonial history.The combination here of language and imagery that feel utterly contemporary, and subject matter - tribal violence and subsequent retribution - that seems almost Homeric, gives the narrative all the febrile energy of classical drama, re-charged and re-imagined.

Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. Beginning with sporadic, brutal attacks by dispossessed ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224084444
SKU
KEX0303664
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds was born in 1974, took a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in South London. His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, was published in 2007 and his book-length narrative poem, The Broken Word, the following year. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, The Quickening Maze. He ... Read more

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