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Greenfields
Richard Price
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Description for Greenfields
Paperback. A lyrical document of growing up in a quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland caught at various stages in the last decades of the twentieth century. As with the acclaimed "Lucky Day", this collection is particularly sensitive to the nuances of family relationships. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 158.
"Greenfields" is a lyrical document of growing up in a quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland caught at various stages in the last decades of the twentieth century. This collection reclaims suburbia - "the rurban" as Price prefers to call it - as a place of unexpected poetry. Alive to the downsides of "dormitory towns", "Greenfields" evokes the bittersweet qualities of places that are neither quite urban nor quite rural but have in fact a fascinating hybridity, even beauty. As with the acclaimed "Lucky Day", this collection is particularly sensitive to the nuances of family relationships, but new here is ... Read more
"Greenfields" is a lyrical document of growing up in a quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland caught at various stages in the last decades of the twentieth century. This collection reclaims suburbia - "the rurban" as Price prefers to call it - as a place of unexpected poetry. Alive to the downsides of "dormitory towns", "Greenfields" evokes the bittersweet qualities of places that are neither quite urban nor quite rural but have in fact a fascinating hybridity, even beauty. As with the acclaimed "Lucky Day", this collection is particularly sensitive to the nuances of family relationships, but new here is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549201
SKU
V9781857549201
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-35
About Richard Price
Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English and Librarianship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, graduating in 1988 with a double first. Lucky Day (Carcanet, 2004), a Book of the Year in The Guardian and in Scotland on Sunday, was shortlisted for several prizes, ... Read more
Reviews for Greenfields
Praise for Price's previous collection, Lucky Day: "Price's humane intelligence manifests itself in deceptively simple and subtly musical forms of address. Readers who allow themselves the pleasure will not be disappointed." - Robert Potts, The Guardian "...an astonishingly moving, filigree-fine book." - SB Kelly, Sunday Herald.