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Description for Nonsense
Hardback. Opens with a 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. In this title, his strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him. Num Pages: 128 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571281282
SKU
KSK0000320
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About Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949. He has worked in publishing - notably as poetry editor at Faber and Faber - and in university education. His edition of Letters of Ted Hughes appeared in 2007. His collection A Scattering (2009) won the Costa Book of the Year, and his poem The Song of Lunch was ... Read more
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