Apology for Absence - Couverture souple

Darling, Julia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904614124 ISBN 13 : 9781904614128

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2004

Synopsis

Julia Darling's second collection, produced a few months before her death from cancer.

Her first book (Sudden Collapses in Public Places) grew from her experiences of being treated for advanced breast cancer; she was able to employ poetic images which helped her see things in a fresh way, pictures and metaphors that could almost be used as 'visualisations'.

"Without poems, my journey through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and the general ups and downs of illness, would have been unthinkable... In my case, I chose to imagine my body as a house, and wrote many poems during my treatment about 'living in the new extension' or about my fears. Sudden Collapses helped me to step out of the difficult present and to use my imagination to be somewhere else."

Her second collection looks at the world beyond the hospital, although still from the view-point of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness. The themes are familiar, but here she writes with a wider perspective, a deeper understanding, which reach out to the heart of the human condition and the greater mysteries of life, albeit in an understated way. This is a powerful and deeply affecting book, completely unsentimental yet charged with emotion – indeed, one of those rare books that have a profound and lasting effect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julia Darling, novelist, playwright and poet, has lived and worked in the North East since 1980. She has written two novels, Crocodile Soup and The Taxi Driver's Daughter (both of which were nominated for major literary prizes), many of her short stories have been broadcast on Radio 4 and her plays have been staged throughout the North-east and broadcast on the radio. In March 2003, she became the second winner of the acclaimed Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, the largest annual literary award in England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614124
• ISBN 13: 9781904614128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 60
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible