The Bruise of Knowing - Couverture souple

Perlstone, Phyllis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925780163 ISBN 13 : 9781925780161

Editeur : Puncher and Wattmann, 2019

Synopsis

This is an important and timely book from a mature, perspicacious voice. Phyllis Perlstone shows us a Monash behind the image on the $100 bank note: the engineer, innovator, man-about-town, husband, father, warrior, tactician; his love affairs and vanities; the prejudice he encounters and regards as 'strange dislike'. Monash's life and Australia's times start up from within the lines of poetry, dealing with brilliant but conflicted events and ideals. The poems move back and forth in time to regard the past and its values with a present perspective.

Perlstone's impartial authorial eye and her distinctive sprung language makes this work of culture, history and biography fresh, complex and meaningful. A triumph of a book: singularly light of touch, concrete in its descriptions and a humane treatise on ambition, xenophobia, modern engineering and the new warfare.

- Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Puncher and Wattmann
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925780163
• ISBN 13: 9781925780161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne