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Description for Gentle Art
Paperback.
A collection of short stories, it is a book about folk devils; creatures at war with respectable society and the conventions on which respectable society is based. It can also be read as a heartrending account of the permanent degradation of men of great talent due to persistent lack of self-control - often indistinguishable from madness.
Gentle Art’s diminutive dimensions echo the intent of early devotional literature - an almost disposable object, designed for personal edification and spiritual formation. Referencing Stephen Graham’s 1927 work, The Gentle Art of Tramping - a manual for life on the ‘other’ side - ... Read more
A collection of short stories, it is a book about folk devils; creatures at war with respectable society and the conventions on which respectable society is based. It can also be read as a heartrending account of the permanent degradation of men of great talent due to persistent lack of self-control - often indistinguishable from madness.
Gentle Art’s diminutive dimensions echo the intent of early devotional literature - an almost disposable object, designed for personal edification and spiritual formation. Referencing Stephen Graham’s 1927 work, The Gentle Art of Tramping - a manual for life on the ‘other’ side - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Trolley Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907112409
SKU
V9781907112409
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Iphgenia Baal
Iphgenia Baal is the author of several fiction books, including The Hardy Tree (Trolley Books, 2011) and Death & Facebook (We Heard You Like Books, 2017). She was nominated in 2013 for Granta Best Young British Novelist for The Hardy Tree. Her unique prose style, once cited as a ‘marrying of politics and ass’, has been likened to writers ... Read more
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