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Henry, Henry: A Novella
Brian Willems
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Description for Henry, Henry: A Novella
Paperback. A brilliantly conceived, wild and thought-provoking tale of composer Henry Purcell and his unscholarly contemporary biographers. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Henry, Henry is a brilliantly conceived experimental novel comprising two alternating stories: a factually inaccurate pseudo-biography of 17th-century composer Henry Purcell and the mid-20th-century story of the people writing the biography. In the 17th-century narrative, the young Henry is repeatedly imprisoned, has an affair with the choirmaster's wife, and is afflicted with an unusual fondness for nice clothes. Falsely accused of stealing all of the cornets from the royal stock of instruments, Henry is banished to a town infested with the plague. There he starts an affair with another woman, Cathleen. Upon his return to London, Henry is confronted with ... Read more
Henry, Henry is a brilliantly conceived experimental novel comprising two alternating stories: a factually inaccurate pseudo-biography of 17th-century composer Henry Purcell and the mid-20th-century story of the people writing the biography. In the 17th-century narrative, the young Henry is repeatedly imprisoned, has an affair with the choirmaster's wife, and is afflicted with an unusual fondness for nice clothes. Falsely accused of stealing all of the cornets from the royal stock of instruments, Henry is banished to a town infested with the plague. There he starts an affair with another woman, Cathleen. Upon his return to London, Henry is confronted with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785355479
SKU
V9781785355479
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99-50
About Brian Willems
Brian Willems is assistant professor of literature and film theory at the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Hopkins and Heidegger and Facticity, Poverty and Clones.
Reviews for Henry, Henry: A Novella
Inventive. I love anything that manages to be experimental without being pretentious. This book pulls it off.
Jennifer Williams, librarian Goodreads
Jennifer Williams, librarian Goodreads