Concrete - Couverture rigide

Driver, Mike

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846241537 ISBN 13 : 9781846241536

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Concrete is an elegantly written, stimulating collection of nine short stories and novellas, from nine different narrators. Journalist, and debut author, Mike Driver writes incisively about injustice and the dilemmas faced by those who challenge and try to defeat it. In the opening story, a young homeless woman protests against the imprisonment of an African poet and finds herself heir to one of his most precious poems. In the longest piece the brilliant, multi-layered novella Betrayal a union activist victimised as a youth reflects on his life in which political commitment and emotional fulfilment have only rarely been in accord. The fraught interaction between love and the thirst for a better future, between the personal and the political and between sexual and revolutionary ardour is the leading theme in this extraordinary, beautifully written collection.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mike Driver studied English Literature at University College, London in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has since worked variously as youth worker, driver and journalist. Concrete brings together writings from every stage of this career and reflects his commitment to Marxism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846241537
• ISBN 13: 9781846241536
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible