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26%OFFEmily Berry - Dear Boy - 9780571284054 - V9780571284054
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Dear Boy

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Description for Dear Boy Paperback. Includes poems that explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.

Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies.

In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingénue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571284054
SKU
V9780571284054
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Ref
99-10

About Emily Berry
Emily Berry grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. In 2008 she won an Eric Gregory Award. She is a co-editor of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives and a contributor to The Breakfast Bible, a compendium of breakfasts to be published by Bloomsbury. She works as ... Read more

Reviews for Dear Boy
This noteworthy debut sees Emily Berry making bravura turns again and again, in poems of polished phrase, seductive technique, and, in spite of the smoke and mirrors, genuine feeling.
Ben Wilkinson Guardian Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, ... Read more

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