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4%OFFMaureen Duffy - Pictures from an Exhibition - 9781910392249 - V9781910392249
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Pictures from an Exhibition

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Description for Pictures from an Exhibition Paperback. For Duffy, pictures are magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of history, mythologies, landscape, love and death - where the artists who make them attempt risk-taking feats analogous to a poet's with words. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: AFC; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
"There were no pictures on the walls of the rented rooms my mother and I lived in when I was a child. But there were pictures on the school walls, details of exhibitions and the lives of great painters in Everybody's Weekly, and, when we could afford it, we would treat ourselves to a trip to the nearest city and its travelling exhibitions of prints, which was how I saw most of Van Gogh that wasn't at school."For Duffy, pictures were and still are magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of history, mythologies, landscape, love and death ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910392249
SKU
V9781910392249
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99-50

About Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy is a fellow of King's College, London and the Royal Society of Literature. In addition to her considerable literary output (19 novels, as well as plays, 8 collections of poetry and non-fiction), Maureen Duffy has devoted the major part of her professional life in a voluntary capacity to the advancement of creators', and particularly writers', interests. ... Read more

Reviews for Pictures from an Exhibition
'Maureen Duffy deserves serious acclaim as a poet, as much as a novelist' Sunday Times; 'she presses on like a medieval troubadour across barriers of genre, gender, space and time.' TLS

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