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55%OFFMichael Symmons Roberts - Breath - 9780099497233 - KNW0008641
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Breath

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Description for Breath paperback. In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father agrees to allow one of Jamie's lungs to be removed and flown over the border for a transplant. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 149.

In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father agrees to allow one of Jamie's lungs to be removed and flown over the border for a transplant.

As the night unfolds and the plane travels across the war-ravaged country, we see the drama from three different perspectives: the father, grieving for the son he perhaps never knew well enough; the lung's recipient, an old man fighting for breath; and in the turbulent sky between them, the young pilot who ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099497233
SKU
KNW0008641
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. His books of poetry have won many awards including the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award for Drysalter (2013) and the Whitbread Poetry Prize for Corpus (2004). His Selected Poems was published by Cape in 2016. As a librettist, his work with composers has been performed in concert halls ... Read more

Reviews for Breath
A bleakly powerful ending with a moving, finely contrived element of hope
Times Literary Supplement
Beautifully spare, poetic prose...A haunting book
Metro
A thoughtful reminder of the wounds of conflict, and the depths of its scars... a clever, innovative, unusual book which is both timeless and timely
Scotsman
A well-paced narrative with carefully crafted ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Breath


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