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Sugar Mile
Glyn Maxwell
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Description for Sugar Mile
Paperback. A series of loosely-connected monologues, combining observations about modern-day America with family reminiscences about wartime London Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
A topical and accessible collection, The Sugar Mile takes its readers on a journey from wartime London to modern-day America. In a series of monologues, each beautifully drawn and intimate, Glyn Maxwell details the effects and experiences of conflict: the sense of community bounded by a distrust of strangers and foreigners; whole streets razed to the ground; homes lost, possessions misplaced and characters displaced; fears for loved-ones offset by tentative bargains with god; casual encounters given an intense, unreal edge by the context in which they occur; the routine drama and unfamiliar ‘everydayness’ of bombs, blackouts, shelters, temporary accommodation and ... Read more
A topical and accessible collection, The Sugar Mile takes its readers on a journey from wartime London to modern-day America. In a series of monologues, each beautifully drawn and intimate, Glyn Maxwell details the effects and experiences of conflict: the sense of community bounded by a distrust of strangers and foreigners; whole streets razed to the ground; homes lost, possessions misplaced and characters displaced; fears for loved-ones offset by tentative bargains with god; casual encounters given an intense, unreal edge by the context in which they occur; the routine drama and unfamiliar ‘everydayness’ of bombs, blackouts, shelters, temporary accommodation and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330438247
SKU
V9780330438247
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99-50
About Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell is an acclaimed poet, playwright, novelist and critic, who has won numerous awards for his work, including the Somerset Maugham, Geoffrey Faber, and Cholmondeley Prizes. He has also been shortlisted seven times for the Costa, Forward and T.S. Eliot. The Sugar Mile is one of his three volumes that were selected as New York Times Notable Books of ... Read more
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