Seeing Stars
Author(s): Simon Armitage
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 town; and, the black bear with a dark secret, the woman who curates giant snowballs in the chest freezer - celebrities and nobodies, all come to the ball.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 68139
- : 0.239
- : 01 May 2010
- : 1.2 Centimeters X 14.5 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Armitage
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 821.914
- : 88