The Silence Room - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Sean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905583176 ISBN 13 : 9781905583171

Editeur : Comma Press, 2008

Synopsis

Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of Sean O'Brien's fiction debut. Idlers and idolisers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim staircases of this seemingly unassuming building. The secret to a family curse, a dog-eared first edition of Stevens Harmonium, the gruesome fate of a feminist literary theorist - all are available to simply take down from the shelf, as are the catalogue of genres and subject areas that O'Brien himself effortlessly deploys: from gothic horror to English pastoral, Critical Theory to Cold War noir. Take a walk between these shelves. Crack the spine and the blow the dust off lives unlived because, so far, they are unread. Become, if you dare, as trapped as them...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sean O'Brien was born in London in 1952 and grew up in Hull. He has published seven collections of verse: The Indoor Park (1983), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Frighteners (1987); HMS Glasshouse (1991); Ghost Train (1995); Downriver (2001); Inferno (2006), his verse version of Dante's Inferno; and The Drowned Book (2007). The latter won the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. Ghost Train, Downriver and The Drowned Book have all won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), making Sean O'Brien the only poet to have won this prize more than once. His essays have been collected in The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry and he was editor of The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After 1945. He has translated Aristophanes The Birds for the National Theatre, and dramatised novels for broadcast as BBC Radio 4 Classic Serials, including Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (2004) and Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear (2006). His first collection of short fiction The Silence Room was published with Comma in 2009, and his first novel, Afterlife with Picador in 2010. He currently lives in Newcastle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905583176
• ISBN 13: 9781905583171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible