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Seeing Stars
Simon Armitage
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Description for Seeing Stars
Paperback. Offers a collection that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern sculpture farm; the soap-opera supremacists at their zoo-wedding; the driver who picks up hitchhikers as he hurtles towards a head-on collision with Thatcherism; a Christian cheese-shop proprietor in the wrong part of ... Read more
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Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571249947
SKU
V9780571249947
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was a winner of one of the first Forward prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collections of poetry include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home Doctor and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The ... Read more
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