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Life Studies
Robert Lowell
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Description for Life Studies
Paperback. "Heartbreaking, shocking, grotesque and gentle". Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
Life Studies was first published in 1959.
'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah's witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: 'but they weren't,' he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571207749
SKU
V9780571207749
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99-49
About Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was born in Boston. He was recognised as an accomplished poet in his own lifetime, and along with Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath he created the fashion and generated the force of American poetry over the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Life Studies, published in 1959, marked a watershed. It initiated an autobiographical project which would ... Read more
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