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Continental Shelf
Fred D´aguiar
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Description for Continental Shelf
Paperback. Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section. It celebrates how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death. Num Pages: 131 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180. 136 pages. Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section. It celebrates how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight: 180.
"Continental Shelf" traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. It moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section which gives its title to the book. Fred D'Aguiar celebrates individuals and the histories embedded in places. He conjures up a sensuous childhood world of characters, stories, a loved particularity - a smell of bitumen, the local hero who comes last in a National Cycle Championship, a distant train's incantation of 'greenheart, mora, baromalli' - impressions so distinct and powerful that ... Read more
"Continental Shelf" traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. It moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section which gives its title to the book. Fred D'Aguiar celebrates individuals and the histories embedded in places. He conjures up a sensuous childhood world of characters, stories, a loved particularity - a smell of bitumen, the local hero who comes last in a National Cycle Championship, a distant train's incantation of 'greenheart, mora, baromalli' - impressions so distinct and powerful that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770431
SKU
V9781847770431
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-13
About Fred D´aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents and grew up in Guyana, returning to England when he was a teenager. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His previous collections of poetry are Mama Dot (1985), Airy Hall (1989; winner of the Guyana Poetry Prize), ... Read more
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