From A to X: A Story in Letters

Berger, John

ISBN 10: 1844672883 / ISBN 13: 9781844672882

Edité par Verso, 2008

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First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket present with minimal wear. Price unclipped. First edition. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: From A to X: A Story in Letters
• Éditeur: Verso
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1844672883
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781844672882
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Includes dust jacket.

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Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A ida s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity an intimate dance, a shared meal assume for A ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

À propos de l?auteur

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours and, most recently, Here Is Where We Meet.