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Sunderland
Ken Barris
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Description for Sunderland
Paperback. Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book-form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghost-writer, but the project becomes literary detective-work he cannot give up. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghostwriter, but the project becomes literary detective work he cannot give up. Introduce de Villiers' beautiful daughter, Lynda, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Art's struggle to make sense of de Villiers' fragmented and disordered text, and sections—scenes, notes, outlines—from that very work. A novel of literary ideas as much as of character, ... Read more
Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghostwriter, but the project becomes literary detective work he cannot give up. Introduce de Villiers' beautiful daughter, Lynda, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Art's struggle to make sense of de Villiers' fragmented and disordered text, and sections—scenes, notes, outlines—from that very work. A novel of literary ideas as much as of character, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781431410798
SKU
V9781431410798
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About Ken Barris
Michael Cope is a writer, a veteran performer of poetry, a Goju karate teacher, and a former designer, jeweler, and computer programmer. He has published the novels Goldin: A Tale and Spiral of Fire, multiple collections of poems, and the memoir Intricacy: A Meditation on Memory. Ken Barris is a writer and a critic who works at Cape ... Read more
Reviews for Sunderland
'Ken Barris's skilled writing... moulds the ordinary into something extraordinary and impresses upon the audi- ence a range of emotions that linger long after the last line has been read.' - The Sunday Independent;'[Michael Cope's] memoir is as complex and beautiful as the richest jacquard cloth, its tones and hues catching and scattering the light.' - Liz Winters, The Write ... Read more